brinkvsiiWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: brink is a noun, ii is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#37,421
“brink” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
37941
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature brink ii
Definition Rand, Kante (besonders an einem steil abfallenden Platz, ein Kliff oder eine Schlucht) Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: brink vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set brink and ii apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
brink
2 ch
ii

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: brink is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37941, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

brink is recorded at frequency rank #37,421, classified as anoun, 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 37941, this pair ranks #1,577,082 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of brink vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "brink": bknr. Private to "ii": -.

"brink" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • brinkbbrink · birnk · brikn · brinkk · brinnk · brnik · brrink · rbink

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "brink" and "ii" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "brink" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "brink" or "ii"?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #37,421 for "brink". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list