lookingvsmarioTell them apart

Quick tell: looking is a verb, mario is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

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.

7 ch
looking
5 ch
mario

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

  • lookingllooking · loking · lokoing · looikng · lookign · lookingg · lookinng · lookking
  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "looking" and "mario" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "looking" is a verb and "mario" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "looking" or "mario"?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #27,829 for "looking". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list