broadcastvsiiTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#45,189
“broadcast” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
45709
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature broadcast ii
Definition eine Radio-/ Fernsehsendung ausstrahlen, übertragen Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: broadcast vs ii

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

9 ch
broadcast
2 ch
ii

Part-of-speech tell for broadcast / ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: broadcast is averb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 7 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45709, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

broadcast is recorded at frequency rank #45,189, classified as averb, 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 45709, this pair ranks #1,343,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of broadcast vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "broadcast": abcdorst. Private to "ii": i.

"broadcast" · 9 letters · shape CCVVCCVCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • broadcastbbroadcast · boradcast · braodcast · broacdast · broadacst · broadcasst · broadcastt · broadcats

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "broadcast" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "broadcast" is a verb and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "broadcast" or "ii" show up more?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #45,189 for "broadcast". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "broadcast" and "ii".

  • Full dictionary entry for "broadcast" 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 #1,343,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "broadcast" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "broadcast 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 #1,343,847 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