includingvswindowsConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#44,703
“including” frequency rank
#2,937
“windows” frequency rank
47640
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature including windows
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs include Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: including vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set including and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

9 ch
including
7 ch
windows

Grammar separator: including vs windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: including is averb and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47640, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

including is recorded at frequency rank #44,703, 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 47640, this pair ranks #1,277,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of including vs windows

Shared letters: din. Private to "including": cglu. Private to "windows": osw.

"including" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC  ·  "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • includingicnluding · inccluding · inclduing · inclluding · includding · includign · includingg · includinng
  • windowsiwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "including" for "windows" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "including" is a verb and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "including" or "windows" show up more?
"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #44,703 for "including". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "including" 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 #1,277,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "including" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "including 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 #1,277,214 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