hits vs of, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#7,337
“hits” frequency rank: #324
“of” frequency rank: 7661
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	hits	of
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hit	von

Letter map: hits vs of

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

4 ch

hits

2 ch

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hits is averb and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7661, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hits is recorded at frequency rank #7,337, 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 7661, this pair ranks #1,987,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hits vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "hits": hist. Private to "of": fo.

"hits" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

hits ← hhits · hist · hitss · hitts · ihts

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Which is more common, "hits" or "of"?

"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 in our German list, against #7,337 for "hits". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "hits" 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 #1,987,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"hits" and "of" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hits 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

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.