class vs video, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#11,026
“class” frequency rank: #654
“video” frequency rank: 11680
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	class	video
Definition	Klasse	Video-

Letter map: class vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set class and video apart highlighted. No shared letter run. class (CCVCC) and video (CVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch

class

5 ch

video

Grammar separator: class vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: class is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11680, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

class is recorded at frequency rank #11,026, 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 11680, this pair ranks #1,968,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of class vs video

Shared letters: none. Private to "class": acls. Private to "video": deiov.

"class" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

class ← calss · cclass · clas · claß · cllass · clsas · lcass
video ← ivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "class" for "video" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "class" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "class" vs "video" - which ranks higher?

"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #11,026 for "class". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "class" 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 #1,968,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"class" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "class 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 #1,968,520 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.