questionsvsvideoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#36,570
“questions” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
37224
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature questions video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs question Video-

Letter map: questions vs video

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

9 ch
questions
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - questions and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: questions is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37224, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

questions is recorded at frequency rank #36,570, classified as averb, 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 37224, this pair ranks #1,595,704 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of questions vs video

Shared letters: eio. Private to "questions": nqstu. Private to "video": dv.

"questions" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • questionsqeustions · qquestions · quesitons · quesstions · questinos · questionns · questionss · questiosn
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "questions" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "questions" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "questions" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #36,570 for "questions". 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 "questions" and "video".

  • Full dictionary entry for "questions" 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 #1,595,704 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "questions" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs questions". 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 #1,595,704 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