imagesvswindowsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: images is a verb, windows is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“images” is a verb and “windows” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,328
“images” frequency rank
#2,937
“windows” frequency rank
17265
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature images windows
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs image Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: images vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set images and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch
images
7 ch
windows

Part-of-speech tell for images / windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: images is averb and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17265, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

images is recorded at frequency rank #14,328, classified as averb, pronounced […]. windows is at rank #2,937, tagged as anoun, 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 17265, this pair ranks #1,928,930 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of images vs windows

Shared letters: is. Private to "images": aegm. Private to "windows": dnow.

"images" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • imagesiamges · imaegs · imagess · imagges · imagse · imgaes · immages · miages
  • windowsiwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "images" for "windows" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "images" is a verb and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "images" vs "windows" - which ranks higher?
"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #14,328 for "images". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "images" and "windows". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "images" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "windows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,928,930 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "images" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "images vs puzzles". 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 #1,928,930 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