added vs of, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“added” is a verb and “of” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,448
“added” frequency rank: #324
“of” frequency rank: 46772
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	added	of
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs add	von

Letter map: added vs of

Shared letters muted; letters that set added and of apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

5 ch

added

2 ch

Role in the sentence - added and of

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: added is averb and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46772, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

added is recorded at frequency rank #46,448, classified as averb, pronounced […]. of is at rank #324, tagged as aprep, 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 46772, this pair ranks #1,307,540 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of added vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "added": ade. Private to "of": fo.

"added" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

added ← addde · addedd · aded · adedd · daded

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "added" for "of" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "added" is a verb and "of" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "added" vs "of" - which ranks higher?

"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 in our German list, against #46,448 for "added". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "added" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "of" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,307,540 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"added" and "of" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "added 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 #1,307,540 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.