Which to use
“looking” is a verb and “mario” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #27,829
- “looking” frequency rank
- #2,911
- “mario” frequency rank
- 30740
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | looking | mario |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs look | der Ehemann |
Letter map: looking vs mario
Shared letters muted; letters that set looking and mario apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.
Part-of-speech tell for looking / mario
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: looking is averb and marioanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30740, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
looking is recorded at frequency rank #27,829, classified as averb, pronounced […]. mario is at rank #2,911, tagged as anoun, 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 30740, this pair ranks #1,741,994 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of looking vs mario
Shared letters: io. Private to "looking": gkln. Private to "mario": amr.
"looking" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "looking" and "mario" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "looking" or "mario"?
What to do next
Pair "looking" vs "mario" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "looking" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mario" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,741,994 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "looking" and "mario" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "looking 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 #1,741,994 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.