officevsvideoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: office is a noun, video is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“office” is a noun and “video” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,205
“office” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
5859
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature office video
Definition Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro Video-

Letter map: office vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set office and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch
office
5 ch
video

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: office is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5859, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

office is recorded at frequency rank #5,205, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. video is at rank #654, tagged as anadj, 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 5859, this pair ranks #1,993,477 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of office vs video

Shared letters: eio. Private to "office": cf. Private to "video": dv.

"office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • officefofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "office" and "video" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "office" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "office" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #5,205 for "office". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "office" and "video". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "office" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "video" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,993,477 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "office" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "office 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

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list