videovswhichWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: video is a adjective, which is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#654
“video” frequency rank
#12,204
“which” frequency rank
12858
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature video which
Definition Video- welche?

Letter map: video vs which

Shared letters muted; letters that set video and which apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. video (CVCVV) and which (CCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
video
5 ch
which

Part-of-speech tell for video / which

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: video is anadjective and whichapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

video is recorded at frequency rank #654, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. which is at rank #12,204, tagged as apron, 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 12858, this pair ranks #1,961,606 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of video vs which

Shared letters: i. Private to "video": deov. Private to "which": chw.

"video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "which" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • video ← ivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo
  • which ← hwich · whcih · whhich · whicch · whichh · whihc · wihch · wwhich

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "video" and "which" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "video" is an adjective and "which" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "video" vs "which" - which ranks higher?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #654 in our German list, against #12,204 for "which". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "video" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "which" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,961,606 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "video" and "which" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs which". 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 #1,961,606 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