movingvsofTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#42,011
“moving” frequency rank
#324
“of” frequency rank
42335
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature moving of
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs move von

Letter map: moving vs of

Shared letters muted; letters that set moving and of apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch
moving
2 ch
of

Role in the sentence - moving and of

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: moving is averb and ofapreposition. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42335, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

moving is recorded at frequency rank #42,011, 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 42335, this pair ranks #1,452,544 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of moving vs of

Shared letters: o. Private to "moving": gimnv. Private to "of": f.

"moving" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "of" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • movingmmoving · moivng · movign · movingg · movinng · movnig · movving · mvoing

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "moving" for "of" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "moving" is a verb and "of" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "moving" or "of" show up more?
"of" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #324 in our German list, against #42,011 for "moving". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "moving" 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 #1,452,544 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "moving" and "of" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moving 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 #1,452,544 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