mediavsspacesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

“media” is a noun and “spaces” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,351
“media” frequency rank
#38,421
“spaces” frequency rank
40772
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature media spaces
Definition Durchschnitt 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs space

Letter map: media vs spaces

Shared letters muted; letters that set media and spaces apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. media runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against spaces's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
media
6 ch
spaces

Part-of-speech tell for media / spaces

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: media is anoun and spacesaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40772, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

media is recorded at frequency rank #2,351, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. spaces is at rank #38,421, tagged as averb, 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 40772, this pair ranks #1,498,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of media vs spaces

Shared letters: ae. Private to "media": dim. Private to "spaces": cps.

"media" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "spaces" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mediaemdia · mdeia · medai · meddia · meida · mmedia
  • spacespsaces · sapces · spacces · spacess · spacse · spaecs · spcaes · sppaces

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "media" for "spaces" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "media" is a noun and "spaces" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "media" or "spaces" show up more?
"media" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,351 in our German list, against #38,421 for "spaces". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "media" and "spaces". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "media" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "spaces" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,498,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "media" and "spaces" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs spaces". 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 #1,498,741 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