omniumvsspielsTell them apart

Quick tell: omnium is a adjective, spiels is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“omnium” is an adjective and “spiels” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,940
“omnium” frequency rank
#5,427
“spiels” frequency rank
55367
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature omnium spiels
Definition Genitiv Plural Maskulinum des Adjektivs omnis 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spiel

Letter map: omnium vs spiels

Shared letters muted; letters that set omnium and spiels apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. omnium (VCCVVC) and spiels (CCVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
omnium
6 ch
spiels

Part-of-speech tell for omnium / spiels

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: omnium is anadjective and spielsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55367, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

omnium is recorded at frequency rank #49,940, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. spiels is at rank #5,427, 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 55367, this pair ranks #982,364 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of omnium vs spiels

Shared letters: i. Private to "omnium": mnou. Private to "spiels": elps.

"omnium" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVC  ·  "spiels" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • omnium ← monium · ominum · ommnium · omnimu · omniumm · omnnium · omnuim · onmium
  • spiels ← psiels · sipels · speils · spiells · spielss · spiesl · spiles · sppiels

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "omnium" for "spiels" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "omnium" is an adjective and "spiels" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "omnium" or "spiels" show up more?
"spiels" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,427 in our German list, against #49,940 for "omnium". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "omnium" vs "spiels" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "omnium" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "spiels" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #982,364 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "omnium" and "spiels" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "omnium 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 #982,364 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