powered vs Powers, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“powered” is an adjective and “Powers” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,700
“powered” frequency rank: #2,050
“Powers” frequency rank: 6750
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	powered	Powers
Definition	Having its own source of power, or a named source.	plural of Power

Letter map: powered vs Powers

Shared letters muted; letters that set powered and Powers apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch

powered

6 ch

Powers

Grammar separator: powered vs Powers

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: powered is anadjective and Powersanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6750, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

powered is recorded at frequency rank #4,700, classified as anadj. Powers is at rank #2,050, tagged as anoun.

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 6750, this pair ranks #510,135 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of powered vs Powers

Shared letters: eoprw. Private to "powered": d. Private to "Powers": s.

"powered" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "Powers" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

powered ← opwered · poewred · poweerd · powerde · poweredd · powerred · powreed · powwered
Powers ← opwers · poewrs · powerrs · powerss · powesr · powres · powwers · ppowers

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "powered" for "Powers" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "powered" is an adjective and "Powers" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "powered" vs "Powers" - which ranks higher?

"Powers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,050 in our English list, against #4,700 for "powered". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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Full dictionary entry for "powered" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Powers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #510,135 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"powered" and "Powers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "poppers vs Powers". 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 #510,135 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.