sharingvsvideoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#21,768
“sharing” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
22422
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sharing video
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs share Video-

Letter map: sharing vs video

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

7 ch
sharing
5 ch
video

Grammar separator: sharing vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sharing is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22422, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sharing is recorded at frequency rank #21,768, 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 22422, this pair ranks #1,874,377 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of sharing vs video

Shared letters: i. Private to "sharing": aghnrs. Private to "video": deov.

"sharing" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sharinghsaring · sahring · shairng · sharign · sharingg · sharinng · sharnig · sharring
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sharing" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sharing" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "sharing" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #21,768 for "sharing". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "sharing" vs "video" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sharing" 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 #1,874,377 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sharing" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sharing". 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 #1,874,377 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