strikesvsvideoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#47,030
“strikes” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
47684
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature strikes video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs strike Video-

Letter map: strikes vs video

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

7 ch
strikes
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for strikes / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: strikes is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47684, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

strikes is recorded at frequency rank #47,030, 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 47684, this pair ranks #1,275,684 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of strikes vs video

Shared letters: ei. Private to "strikes": krst. Private to "video": dov.

"strikes" · 7 letters · shape CCCVCVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • strikessrtikes · sstrikes · stirkes · strikess · strikkes · strikse · strkies · strrikes
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "strikes" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "strikes" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "strikes" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #47,030 for "strikes". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "strikes" 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 #1,275,684 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "strikes" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs strikes". 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 #1,275,684 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