Which to use
“poured” is a verb and “powered” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #9,381
- “poured” frequency rank
- #4,700
- “powered” frequency rank
- 14081
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | poured | powered |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of pour | Having its own source of power, or a named source. |
Letter map: poured vs powered
Shared letters muted; letters that set poured and powered apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.
Part-of-speech tell for poured / powered
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: poured is averb and poweredanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14081, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
poured is recorded at frequency rank #9,381, classified as averb, pronounced /pɔːd/. powered is at rank #4,700, tagged as anadj.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 14081, this pair ranks #472,156 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of poured vs powered
Shared letters: deopr. Private to "poured": u. Private to "powered": w.
"poured" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "powered" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "poured" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "powered" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #472,156 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "poured" and "powered" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "poured vs pruned". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #472,156 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.