Antonius vs by, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Antonius” is a name and “by” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,351
“Antonius” frequency rank: #1,627
“by” frequency rank: 17978
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Antonius	by
Definition	lateinischer männlicher Vorname; der Name in dieser Form ist heute im mittel- und niederrheinischen Raum v.a. den Niederlande gebräuchlich	Stadt

Letter map: Antonius vs by

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

8 ch

Antonius

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for Antonius / by

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Antonius is aname and byanoun. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17978, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Antonius is recorded at frequency rank #16,351, classified as aname, 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 17978, this pair ranks #1,922,519 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Antonius vs by

Shared letters: none. Private to "Antonius": ainostu. Private to "by": by.

"Antonius" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "by" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

Antonius ← anntonius · anotnius · antnoius · antoinus · antonisu · antoniuss · antonnius · antonuis

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Antonius" and "by" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Antonius" is a name and "by" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "Antonius" or "by"?

"by" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,627 in our German list, against #16,351 for "Antonius". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Antonius" and "by". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "Antonius" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "by" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,922,519 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Antonius" and "by" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Antonius 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 #1,922,519 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.