stylesvsvideoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#33,322
“styles” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
33976
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature styles video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs style Video-

Letter map: styles vs video

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

6 ch
styles
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - styles and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: styles is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33976, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

styles is recorded at frequency rank #33,322, 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 33976, this pair ranks #1,673,831 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of styles vs video

Shared letters: e. Private to "styles": lsty. Private to "video": diov.

"styles" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stylessstyles · stlyes · sttyles · styels · styless · stylles · stylse · styyles
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "styles" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "styles" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "styles" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #33,322 for "styles". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "styles" 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 #1,673,831 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "styles" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs styles". 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 #1,673,831 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