limitedvsofWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: limited is a verb, of is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“limited” is a verb and “of” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,422
“limited” frequency rank
#324
“of” frequency rank
15746
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature limited of
Definition Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs limit von

Letter map: limited vs of

Shared letters muted; letters that set limited and of apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

7 ch
limited
2 ch
of

Role in the sentence - limited and of

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: limited is averb and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15746, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

limited is recorded at frequency rank #15,422, classified as averb, pronounced […]. of is at rank #324, tagged as aprep, 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 15746, this pair ranks #1,941,458 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of limited vs of

Shared letters: none. Private to "limited": deilmt. Private to "of": fo.

"limited" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • limitedilmited · liimted · limietd · limitde · limitedd · limitted · limmited · limtied

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "limited" and "of" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "limited" is a verb and "of" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "limited" or "of" show up more?
"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 in our German list, against #15,422 for "limited". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "limited" vs "of" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "limited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "of" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,941,458 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "limited" and "of" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "limited 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 #1,941,458 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