usersvsvideoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#35,513
“users” frequency rank
#654
“video” frequency rank
36167
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature users video
Definition Plural des Substantivs user Video-

Letter map: users vs video

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

5 ch
users
5 ch
video

Grammar separator: users vs video

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: users is anoun and videoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36167, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

users is recorded at frequency rank #35,513, classified as anoun, 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 36167, this pair ranks #1,622,331 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of users vs video

Shared letters: e. Private to "users": rsu. Private to "video": diov.

"users" · 5 letters · shape VCVCC  ·  "video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • userssuers · uesrs · userrs · userss · usesr · usres · ussers
  • videoivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "users" for "video" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "users" is a noun and "video" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "users" vs "video" - which ranks higher?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #35,513 for "users". 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 "users" and "video". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "users" 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 #1,622,331 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "users" and "video" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs users". 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 #1,622,331 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