bankingvsvideoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: banking is a verb, video is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“banking” is a verb and “video” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,866
“banking” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
13520
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature banking video
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs bank Video-

Letter map: banking vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set banking and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
banking
5 ch
video

Grammar separator: banking vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: banking is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13520, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

banking is recorded at frequency rank #12,866, classified as averb, pronounced […]. video is at rank #654, tagged as anadj, 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 13520, this pair ranks #1,957,468 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of banking vs video

Shared letters: i. Private to "banking": abgkn. Private to "video": deov.

"banking" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bankingabnking · bakning · banikng · bankign · bankingg · bankinng · bankking · banknig
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "banking" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "banking" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "banking" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #12,866 for "banking". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "banking" and "video".

  • Full dictionary entry for "banking" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "video" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,957,468 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "banking" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "banking 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 #1,957,468 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list