currentvsmarioWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: current is a adjective, mario is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#31,986
“current” frequency rank
#2,911
“mario” frequency rank
34897
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature current mario
Definition aktuell der Ehemann

Letter map: current vs mario

Shared letters muted; letters that set current and mario apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
current
5 ch
mario

Grammar separator: current vs mario

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: current is anadjective and marioanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34897, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

current is recorded at frequency rank #31,986, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. mario is at rank #2,911, tagged as anoun, 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 34897, this pair ranks #1,652,771 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of current vs mario

Shared letters: r. Private to "current": centu. Private to "mario": aimo.

"current" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • currentccurrent · crurent · curent · curernt · currennt · currentt · curretn · currnet
  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "current" for "mario" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "current" is an adjective and "mario" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "current" or "mario" show up more?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #31,986 for "current". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "current" vs "mario" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "current" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mario" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,652,771 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "current" and "mario" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "current 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 #1,652,771 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