billsvsvideoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#48,785
“bills” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
49439
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bills video
Definition Plural des Substantivs bill Video-

Letter map: bills vs video

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

5 ch
bills
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for bills / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bills is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49439, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bills is recorded at frequency rank #48,785, classified as anoun, 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 49439, this pair ranks #1,211,476 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bills vs video

Shared letters: i. Private to "bills": bls. Private to "video": deov.

"bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • billsbbills · billss · bils · bilsl · blils · iblls
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "bills" and "video" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bills" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "bills" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #48,785 for "bills". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "bills" vs "video" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bills" 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 #1,211,476 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bills" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bills 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 #1,211,476 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