alumnivsbyWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“alumni” and “by” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#47,931
“alumni” frequency rank
#1,627
“by” frequency rank
49558
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alumni by
Definition Plural des Substantivs alumnus Stadt

Letter map: alumni vs by

Shared letters muted; letters that set alumni and by apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
alumni
2 ch
by

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

alumni and by are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49558, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alumni is recorded at frequency rank #47,931, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. by is at rank #1,627, 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 49558, this pair ranks #1,206,965 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alumni vs by

Shared letters: none. Private to "alumni": ailmnu. Private to "by": by.

"alumni" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "by" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • alumniallumni · almuni · alumin · alummni · alumnni · alunmi · aulmni · laumni

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alumni" and "by" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 4 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "alumni" or "by"?
"by" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,627 in our German list, against #47,931 for "alumni". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list