id vs ihn, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“id” is an unknown and “ihn” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,272
“id” frequency rank: #140
“ihn” frequency rank: 5412
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	id	ihn
Definition	[1] Nominativ Singular Neutrum des Pronomens is	Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular Akkusativ

Letter map: id vs ihn

Shared letters muted; letters that set id and ihn apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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Grammar separator: id vs ihn

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: id is anunknown and ihnapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5412, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

id is recorded at frequency rank #5,272, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. ihn is at rank #140, tagged as apron, pronounced [iːn].

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 5412, this pair ranks #1,994,834 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of id vs ihn

Shared letters: i. Private to "id": d. Private to "ihn": hn.

"id" · 2 letters · shape VC · "ihn" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "id" for "ihn" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "id" is an unknown and "ihn" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "id" or "ihn"?

"ihn" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #140 in our German list, against #5,272 for "id". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "id" and "ihn". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "id" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ihn" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,994,834 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"id" and "ihn" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "id vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,994,834 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.