airesvsvideoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: aires is a noun, video is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#16,077
“aires” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
16731
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aires video
Definition Plural des Substantivs aire Video-

Letter map: aires vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set aires and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. aires (VVCVC) and video (CVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
aires
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - aires and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aires is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16731, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aires is recorded at frequency rank #16,077, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. video is at rank #654, tagged as anadj, 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 16731, this pair ranks #1,933,433 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aires vs video

Shared letters: ei. Private to "aires": ars. Private to "video": dov.

"aires" · 5 letters · shape VVCVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • airesaiers · airess · airres · airse · aries · iares
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "aires" and "video" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aires" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aires" vs "video" - which ranks higher?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #16,077 for "aires". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aires" and "video".

  • Full dictionary entry for "aires" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "video" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,933,433 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aires" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aires 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 #1,933,433 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