tutsvsvideoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,878
“tuts” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
43532
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tuts video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tut Video-

Letter map: tuts vs video

Shared letters muted; letters that set tuts and video apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

4 ch
tuts
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for tuts / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tuts is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43532, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tuts is recorded at frequency rank #42,878, 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 43532, this pair ranks #1,415,110 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tuts vs video

Shared letters: none. Private to "tuts": stu. Private to "video": deiov.

"tuts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tutsttus · ttuts · tutss · tutts · utts
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tuts" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tuts" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "tuts" or "video"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #42,878 for "tuts". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "tuts" 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 #1,415,110 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tuts" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tuts". 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 #1,415,110 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