cinemavsiiConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#25,496
“cinema” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
26016
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cinema ii
Definition Ort, an dem Filme gezeigt werden; Kino, Filmtheater Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: cinema vs ii

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

6 ch
cinema
2 ch
ii

Grammar separator: cinema vs ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cinema is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26016, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cinema is recorded at frequency rank #25,496, 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 26016, this pair ranks #1,824,524 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cinema vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "cinema": acemn. Private to "ii": -.

"cinema" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cinemaccinema · cienma · cineam · cinemma · cinmea · cinnema · cniema · icnema

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cinema" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cinema" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "cinema" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #25,496 for "cinema". 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 "cinema" and "ii".

  • Full dictionary entry for "cinema" 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 #1,824,524 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cinema" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cinema 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 #1,824,524 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