districtvsiiWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#28,150
“district” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
28670
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature district ii
Definition Bezirk, Distrikt, Gebiet Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: district vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set district and ii apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
district
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - district and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: district is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28670, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

district is recorded at frequency rank #28,150, 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 28670, this pair ranks #1,780,658 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of district vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "district": cdrst. Private to "ii": -.

"district" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • districtddistrict · disrtict · disstrict · distirct · distrcit · districct · districtt · distritc

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "district" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "district" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "district" vs "ii" - which ranks higher?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #28,150 for "district". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "district" 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 #1,780,658 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "district" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "district 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 #1,780,658 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