unsernvsvideoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#24,966
“unsern” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
25620
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature unsern video
Definition Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum attributiv des Pronomens unser Video-

Letter map: unsern vs video

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

6 ch
unsern
5 ch
video

Part-of-speech tell for unsern / video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: unsern is adeterminer and videoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25620, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

unsern is recorded at frequency rank #24,966, classified as adet, 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 25620, this pair ranks #1,830,527 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of unsern vs video

Shared letters: e. Private to "unsern": nrsu. Private to "video": diov.

"unsern" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • unsernnusern · unesrn · unnsern · unsenr · unsernn · unserrn · unsren · unssern
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "unsern" and "video" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "unsern" is a determiner and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "unsern" or "video" show up more?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #24,966 for "unsern". 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 "unsern" and "video". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "unsern" 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 #1,830,527 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "unsern" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs unsern". 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 #1,830,527 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