unitvsvideoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#20,101
“unit” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
20755
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature unit video
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs unir Video-

Letter map: unit vs video

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

4 ch
unit
5 ch
video

Grammar separator: unit vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unit is averb and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20755, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unit is recorded at frequency rank #20,101, 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 20755, this pair ranks #1,894,123 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unit vs video

Shared letters: i. Private to "unit": ntu. Private to "video": deov.

"unit" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • unitnuit · uint · unitt · unnit · unti
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "unit" and "video" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unit" is a verb and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "unit" vs "video" - which ranks higher?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #20,101 for "unit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "unit" 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 #1,894,123 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "unit" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unit". 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 #1,894,123 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