Aye vs ii, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Aye” is a name and “ii” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,408
“Aye” frequency rank: #520
“ii” frequency rank: 40928
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Aye	ii
Definition	nordfriesischer männlicher Vorname	Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: Aye vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set Aye and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

3 ch

Aye

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for Aye / ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Aye is aname and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40928, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Aye is recorded at frequency rank #40,408, classified as aname, 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 40928, this pair ranks #1,494,276 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Aye vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "Aye": aey. Private to "ii": i.

"Aye" · 3 letters · shape VVV · "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Aye" and "ii" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Aye" is a name and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "Aye" or "ii" show up more?

"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #40,408 for "Aye". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "Aye" 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 #1,494,276 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Aye" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Aye vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,494,276 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.