famousvsiiTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#41,158
“famous” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
41678
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature famous ii
Definition bekannt, berühmt Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: famous vs ii

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

6 ch
famous
2 ch
ii

Part-of-speech tell for famous / ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: famous is anadjective and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41678, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

famous is recorded at frequency rank #41,158, classified as anadj, 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 41678, this pair ranks #1,472,308 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of famous vs ii

Shared letters: none. Private to "famous": afmosu. Private to "ii": i.

"famous" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • famousafmous · fammous · famosu · famouss · famuos · faomus · ffamous · fmaous

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "famous" and "ii" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "famous" is an adjective and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "famous" or "ii" show up more?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #41,158 for "famous". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "famous" and "ii". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "famous" 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 #1,472,308 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "famous" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "famous 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 #1,472,308 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