communevsiiTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#45,835
“commune” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
46355
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commune ii
Definition sich über sehr vertrauliche Sachen mit jemandem unterhalten Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: commune vs ii

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

7 ch
commune
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - commune and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: commune is averb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46355, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commune is recorded at frequency rank #45,835, 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 46355, this pair ranks #1,321,899 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commune vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "commune": cemnou. Private to "ii": i.

"commune" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communeccommune · cmomune · commnue · commuen · communne · comumne · comune · ocmmune

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commune" and "ii" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "commune" is a verb and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "commune" or "ii" show up more?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #45,835 for "commune". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "commune" 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 #1,321,899 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commune" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commune 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 #1,321,899 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