ThilovsvideoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#20,431
“Thilo” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
21085
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Thilo video
Definition männlicher Vorname Video-

Letter map: Thilo vs video

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

5 ch
Thilo
5 ch
video

Role in the sentence - Thilo and video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Thilo is aname and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21085, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Thilo is recorded at frequency rank #20,431, classified as aname, 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 21085, this pair ranks #1,890,328 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Thilo vs video

Shared letters: io. Private to "Thilo": hlt. Private to "video": dev.

"Thilo" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Thilohtilo · thhilo · thillo · thiol · thlio · tihlo · tthilo
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Thilo" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Thilo" is a name and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Thilo" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #20,431 for "Thilo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Thilo" 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 #1,890,328 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Thilo" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Thilo". 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 #1,890,328 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