districtvsofWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: district is a noun, of is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#28,150
“district” frequency rank
#324
“of” frequency rank
28474
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature district of
Definition Bezirk, Distrikt, Gebiet von

Letter map: district vs of

Shared letters muted; letters that set district and of apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

8 ch
district
2 ch
of

Role in the sentence - district and of

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: district is anoun and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28474, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

district is recorded at frequency rank #28,150, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. of is at rank #324, tagged as aprep, 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 28474, this pair ranks #1,784,133 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of district vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "district": cdirst. Private to "of": fo.

"district" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCC  ·  "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "district" and "of" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "district" is a noun and "of" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "district" or "of" show up more?
"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 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.

What to do next

You've compared "district" and "of". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "district" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "of" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,784,133 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "district" and "of" 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 #1,784,133 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