edited vs League, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“edited” is a verb and “League” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,895
“edited” frequency rank: #1,976
“League” frequency rank: 38871
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	edited	League
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs edit	historisches, in Nordamerika und England verwendetes Längenmaß

Letter map: edited vs League

Shared letters muted; letters that set edited and League apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch

edited

6 ch

League

Grammar separator: edited vs League

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: edited is averb and Leagueanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

edited is recorded at frequency rank #36,895, classified as averb, pronounced […]. League is at rank #1,976, tagged as anoun, 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 38871, this pair ranks #1,552,414 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of edited vs League

Shared letters: e. Private to "edited": dit. Private to "League": aglu.

"edited" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC · "League" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

edited ← deited · eddited · edietd · editde · editedd · editted · edtied · eidted
League ← elague · laegue · leageu · leaggue · leauge · legaue · lleague

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "edited" for "League" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "edited" is a verb and "League" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "edited" or "League" show up more?

"League" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,976 in our German list, against #36,895 for "edited". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "edited" and "League". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "edited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "League" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,552,414 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"edited" and "League" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "edited 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 #1,552,414 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.