edited vs of, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#36,895
“edited” frequency rank: #324
“of” frequency rank: 37219
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	edited	of
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs edit	von

Letter map: edited vs of

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

6 ch

edited

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for edited / of

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: edited is averb and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37219, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

edited is recorded at frequency rank #36,895, classified as averb, 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 37219, this pair ranks #1,595,819 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of edited vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "edited": deit. Private to "of": fo.

"edited" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC · "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

edited ← deited · eddited · edietd · editde · editedd · editted · edtied · eidted

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "edited" and "of" be used interchangeably?

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

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

"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 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.

What to do next

Pair "edited" vs "of" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "edited" 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 #1,595,819 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"edited" and "of" 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 #1,595,819 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.