accountsvsmediaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: accounts is a verb, media is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accounts” is a verb and “media” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,320
“accounts” frequency rank
#2,351
“media” frequency rank
10671
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accounts media
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs account Durchschnitt

Letter map: accounts vs media

Shared letters muted; letters that set accounts and media apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. accounts runs 8 letters (VCCVVCCC) against media's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
accounts
5 ch
media

Grammar separator: accounts vs media

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: accounts is averb and mediaanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10671, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accounts is recorded at frequency rank #8,320, classified as averb, pronounced […]. media is at rank #2,351, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 10671, this pair ranks #1,973,942 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accounts vs media

Shared letters: a. Private to "accounts": cnostu. Private to "media": deim.

"accounts" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCC  ·  "media" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accountsacconuts · accounnts · accounst · accountss · accountts · accoutns · accuonts · acocunts
  • mediaemdia · mdeia · medai · meddia · meida · mmedia

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accounts" for "media" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accounts" is a verb and "media" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accounts" vs "media" - which ranks higher?
"media" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,351 in our German list, against #8,320 for "accounts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "accounts" vs "media" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accounts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "media" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,973,942 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accounts" and "media" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accounts vs puzzles". 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 #1,973,942 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list