alumnivsofWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: alumni is a noun, of is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#47,931
“alumni” frequency rank
#324
“of” frequency rank
48255
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alumni of
Definition Plural des Substantivs alumnus von

Letter map: alumni vs of

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

6 ch
alumni
2 ch
of

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alumni is anoun and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48255, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alumni is recorded at frequency rank #47,931, classified as anoun, 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 48255, this pair ranks #1,255,247 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alumni vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "alumni": ailmnu. Private to "of": fo.

"alumni" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alumni" and "of" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alumni" is a noun and "of" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "alumni" or "of"?
"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 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