altarsvsiiWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: altars is a noun, ii is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“altars” is a noun and “ii” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,697
“altars” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
44217
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature altars ii
Definition Plural des Substantivs altar Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: altars vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set altars and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
altars
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - altars and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: altars is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44217, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

altars is recorded at frequency rank #43,697, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. ii is at rank #520, tagged as anunknown, 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 44217, this pair ranks #1,393,223 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of altars vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "altars": alrst. Private to "ii": i.

"altars" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • altarsalatrs · alltars · altarrs · altarss · altasr · altras · alttars · atlars

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "altars" and "ii" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "altars" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "altars" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #43,697 for "altars". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "altars" and "ii". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "altars" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ii" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,393,223 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "altars" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "altars 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 #1,393,223 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