immigrationvsvideoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#37,583
“immigration” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
38237
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immigration video
Definition Einwanderung Video-

Letter map: immigration vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set immigration and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

11 ch
immigration
5 ch
video

Grammar separator: immigration vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: immigration is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38237, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immigration is recorded at frequency rank #37,583, 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 38237, this pair ranks #1,569,202 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of immigration vs video

Shared letters: io. Private to "immigration": agmnrt. Private to "video": dev.

"immigration" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • immigrationimigration · imimgration · immgiration · immigartion · immiggration · immigraiton · immigratino · immigrationn
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "immigration" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immigration" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "immigration" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #37,583 for "immigration". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "immigration" 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 #1,569,202 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immigration" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immigration 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 #1,569,202 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