Which to use
“food” is a noun and “ii” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,045
- “food” frequency rank
- #520
- “ii” frequency rank
- 7565
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | food | ii |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | jede Substanz die von Menschen, Pflanzen oder Tieren aufgenommen wird, um das Überleben und das Wachstum zu ermöglichen, Nahrung | Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is |
Letter map: food vs ii
Shared letters muted; letters that set food and ii apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for food / ii
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: food is anoun and iianunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7565, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
food is recorded at frequency rank #7,045, 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 7565, this pair ranks #1,987,690 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of food vs ii
Shared letters: none. Private to "food": dfo. Private to "ii": i.
"food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "ii" · 2 letters · shape VV
Known mistypes of this pair
- food ← ffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "food" and "ii" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "food" or "ii" show up more?
After this comparison
You've compared "food" and "ii". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "food" 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 #1,987,690 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "food" and "ii" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "food 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 #1,987,690 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.