hostsvsvideoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,973
“hosts” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
44627
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hosts video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs host Video-

Letter map: hosts vs video

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

5 ch
hosts
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - hosts and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hosts is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44627, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hosts is recorded at frequency rank #43,973, classified as averb, 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 44627, this pair ranks #1,380,032 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hosts vs video

Shared letters: o. Private to "hosts": hst. Private to "video": deiv.

"hosts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hostshhosts · hossts · hostss · hostts · hotss · hsots · ohsts
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hosts" and "video" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hosts" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hosts" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #43,973 for "hosts". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "hosts" and "video". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hosts" 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 #1,380,032 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hosts" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hosts 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 #1,380,032 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