commentsvsiiWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#30,988
“comments” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
31508
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comments ii
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs comment Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: comments vs ii

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

8 ch
comments
2 ch
ii

Part-of-speech tell for comments / ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: comments is averb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31508, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comments is recorded at frequency rank #30,988, 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 31508, this pair ranks #1,726,701 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of comments vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "comments": cemnost. Private to "ii": i.

"comments" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commentsccomments · cmoments · comemnts · coments · commennts · commenst · commentss · commentts

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "comments" and "ii" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comments" is a verb and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "comments" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #30,988 for "comments". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "comments" vs "ii" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "comments" 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 #1,726,701 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comments" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comments 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 #1,726,701 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