diaryvsiiWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#45,854
“diary” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
46374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature diary ii
Definition Tagebuch Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: diary vs ii

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

5 ch
diary
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - diary and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: diary is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

diary is recorded at frequency rank #45,854, classified as anoun, 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 46374, this pair ranks #1,321,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of diary vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "diary": adry. Private to "ii": -.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • diarydairy · ddiary · diarry · diaryy · diayr · diray · idary

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "diary" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "diary" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "diary" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #45,854 for "diary". 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 "diary" and "ii".

  • Full dictionary entry for "diary" 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 #1,321,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "diary" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "diary 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 #1,321,243 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