videovsvoidedTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#363
“video” frequency rank
#40,959
“voided” frequency rank
41322
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature video voided
Definition Television, a television show, or a movie. With the centre cut out.

Letter map: video vs voided

Shared letters muted; letters that set video and voided apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. video runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against voided's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
video
6 ch
voided

Role in the sentence - video and voided

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: video is anoun and voidedanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41322, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

video is recorded at frequency rank #363, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/. voided is at rank #40,959, tagged as anadj.

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 41322, this pair ranks #259,501 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of video vs voided

Shared letters: deiov. Private to "video": -. Private to "voided": -.

"video" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "voided" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • video ← ivdeo · vdieo · viddeo · vidoe · viedo · vvideo
  • voided ← ovided · vioded · vodied · voidde · voidded · voidedd · voiedd · vvoided

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "video" and "voided" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "video" is a noun and "voided" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "video" or "voided"?
"video" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #363 in our English list, against #40,959 for "voided". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "video" vs "voided" 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 "voided" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #259,501 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "video" and "voided" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vide vs voided". 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 #259,501 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list