Which to use
“away” is an adverb and “ii” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #15,565
- “away” frequency rank
- #520
- “ii” frequency rank
- 16085
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | away | ii |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | weg, fort, abwesend | Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is |
Letter map: away vs ii
Shared letters muted; letters that set away and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for away / ii
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: away is anadverb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16085, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
away is recorded at frequency rank #15,565, classified as anadv, 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 16085, this pair ranks #1,938,727 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of away vs ii
Shared letters: none. Private to "away": awy. Private to "ii": i.
"away" · 4 letters · shape VCVV · "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV
Known mistypes of this pair
- away ← aawy · awayy · awway · awya · waay
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "away" for "ii" ever safe?
Which is more common, "away" or "ii"?
Useful next steps
Pair "away" vs "ii" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "away" 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 #1,938,727 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "away" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "away 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 #1,938,727 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.