palacevsvideoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#14,886
“palace” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
15540
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature palace video
Definition ein besonders aufwendig ausgestattetes Gebäude; Palast Video-

Letter map: palace vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set palace and video apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch
palace
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for palace / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: palace is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15540, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

palace is recorded at frequency rank #14,886, 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 15540, this pair ranks #1,943,055 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of palace vs video

Shared letters: e. Private to "palace": aclp. Private to "video": diov.

"palace" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • palaceaplace · paalce · palacce · palaec · palcae · pallace · plaace · ppalace
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "palace" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "palace" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "palace" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #14,886 for "palace". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "palace" and "video".

  • Full dictionary entry for "palace" 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 #1,943,055 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "palace" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "palace 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 #1,943,055 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