Which to use
“around” is a preposition and “ii” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,218
- “around” frequency rank
- #520
- “ii” frequency rank
- 17738
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | around | ii |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | um … herum, rund um, ringsum | Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is |
Letter map: around vs ii
Shared letters muted; letters that set around and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for around / ii
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: around is apreposition and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17738, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
around is recorded at frequency rank #17,218, classified as aprep, 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 17738, this pair ranks #1,924,728 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of around vs ii
Shared letters: none. Private to "around": adnoru. Private to "ii": i.
"around" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCC · "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV
Known mistypes of this pair
- around ← aorund · aronud · aroudn · aroundd · arounnd · arround · aruond · raound
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "around" for "ii" ever safe?
Which is more common, "around" or "ii"?
Useful next steps
You've compared "around" and "ii". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "around" 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 #1,924,728 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "around" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "around 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 #1,924,728 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.