foodvsiiWhich spelling fits?

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

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.

4 ch
food
2 ch
ii

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

  • foodffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "food" and "ii" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "food" is a noun and "ii" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "food" or "ii" show up more?
"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #7,045 for "food". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list