flightvsiiConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#26,870
“flight” frequency rank
#520
“ii” frequency rank
27390
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flight ii
Definition Flug Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is

Letter map: flight vs ii

Shared letters muted; letters that set flight and ii apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch
flight
2 ch
ii

Role in the sentence - flight and ii

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: flight is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27390, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flight is recorded at frequency rank #26,870, classified as anoun, 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 27390, this pair ranks #1,802,540 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of flight vs ii

Shared letters: i. Private to "flight": fghlt. Private to "ii": -.

"flight" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC  ·  "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flightfflight · filght · flgiht · fligght · flighht · flightt · fligth · flihgt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "flight" for "ii" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "flight" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "flight" or "ii"?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #26,870 for "flight". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "flight" and "ii".

  • Full dictionary entry for "flight" 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 #1,802,540 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flight" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flight 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 #1,802,540 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