ii vs ita, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#520
“ii” frequency rank: #30,135
“ita” frequency rank: 30655
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ii	ita
Definition	Nominativ Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens is	Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular; sie

Letter map: ii vs ita

Shared letters muted; letters that set ii and ita apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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Role in the sentence - ii and ita

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ii is anunknown and itaapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30655, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ii is recorded at frequency rank #520, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. ita is at rank #30,135, tagged as apron, pronounced [ítá].

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 30655, this pair ranks #1,743,634 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ii vs ita

Shared letters: i. Private to "ii": -. Private to "ita": at.

"ii" · 2 letters · shape VV · "ita" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ii" for "ita" ever safe?

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

Which is more common, "ii" or "ita"?

"ii" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #520 in our German list, against #30,135 for "ita". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "ii" and "ita". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "ii" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ita" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,743,634 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ii" and "ita" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "IMs vs ita". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,743,634 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.