documentsvsiiWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#48,068
“documents” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
48588
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature documents ii
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs document Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: documents vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set documents and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

9 ch
documents
2 ch
ii

Part-of-speech tell for documents / ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: documents is averb and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 7 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48588, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

documents is recorded at frequency rank #48,068, classified as averb, 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 48588, this pair ranks #1,242,949 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of documents vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "documents": cdemnostu. Private to "ii": i.

"documents" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • documentsdcouments · ddocuments · doccuments · docmuents · docuemnts · documennts · documenst · documentss

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "documents" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "documents" is a verb and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "documents" or "ii"?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #48,068 for "documents". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "documents" 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 #1,242,949 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "documents" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "documents 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 #1,242,949 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