intovsvideoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#12,107
“into” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
12761
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature into video
Definition in etwasᴬᵏᵏ hinein Video-

Letter map: into vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set into and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. into runs 4 letters (VCCV) against video's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
into
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for into / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: into is apreposition and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12761, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

into is recorded at frequency rank #12,107, classified as aprep, 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 12761, this pair ranks #1,962,203 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of into vs video

Shared letters: io. Private to "into": nt. Private to "video": dev.

"into" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • into ← innto · inot · intto · itno · nito
  • video ← ivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "into" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "into" is a preposition and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "into" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #12,107 for "into". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "into" 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 #1,962,203 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "into" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "into 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 #1,962,203 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