hospitalvsvideoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: hospital is a noun, video is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hospital” is a noun and “video” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,309
“hospital” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
12963
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hospital video
Definition größeres Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex mit einer medizinischen Einrichtung, in dem Krankheiten, Leiden oder körperliche Schäden bei Menschen festgestellt und jene durch stationäre oder ambulante Behandlung geheilt oder gelindert sowie Geburtshilfe und Sterbebegleitung geleistet werden Video-

Letter map: hospital vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set hospital and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

8 ch
hospital
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - hospital and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hospital is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12963, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hospital is recorded at frequency rank #12,309, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. video is at rank #654, tagged as anadj, 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 12963, this pair ranks #1,960,951 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hospital vs video

Shared letters: io. Private to "hospital": ahlpst. Private to "video": dev.

"hospital" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hospitalhhospital · hopsital · hosiptal · hospiatl · hospitall · hospitla · hospittal · hosppital
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hospital" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hospital" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hospital" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #12,309 for "hospital". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hospital" and "video".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hospital" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "video" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,960,951 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hospital" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hospital 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 #1,960,951 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