dailyvsiiTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#6,779
“daily” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
7299
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature daily ii
Definition täglich Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: daily vs ii

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

5 ch
daily
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - daily and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: daily is anadverb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7299, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

daily is recorded at frequency rank #6,779, classified as anadv, 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 7299, this pair ranks #1,988,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of daily vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "daily": adly. Private to "ii": -.

"daily" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dailyadily · dailly · dailyy · daiyl · daliy · ddaily · dialy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "daily" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "daily" is an adverb and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "daily" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #6,779 for "daily". 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 "daily" and "ii".

  • Full dictionary entry for "daily" 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 #1,988,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "daily" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "daily 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 #1,988,664 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