legovsomniumTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
#49,940
“omnium” frequency rank
61025
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lego omnium
Definition 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare Genitiv Plural Maskulinum des Adjektivs omnis

Letter map: lego vs omnium

Shared letters muted; letters that set lego and omnium apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. lego runs 4 letters (CVCV) against omnium's 6 (VCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
lego
6 ch
omnium

Role in the sentence - lego and omnium

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lego is averb and omniumanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61025, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lego is recorded at frequency rank #11,085, classified as averb, pronounced […]. omnium is at rank #49,940, 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 61025, this pair ranks #765,087 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lego vs omnium

Shared letters: o. Private to "lego": egl. Private to "omnium": imnu.

"lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "omnium" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lego ← elgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego
  • omnium ← monium · ominum · ommnium · omnimu · omniumm · omnnium · omnuim · onmium

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lego" and "omnium" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lego" is a verb and "omnium" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "lego" vs "omnium" - which ranks higher?
"lego" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,085 in our German list, against #49,940 for "omnium". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "lego" and "omnium".

  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "omnium" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #765,087 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lego" and "omnium" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "omnium 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 #765,087 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