MauricevswinningWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Maurice is a name, winning is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Maurice” is a name and “winning” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,929
“Maurice” frequency rank
#46,403
“winning” frequency rank
58332
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Maurice winning
Definition englischer männlicher Vorname Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs win

Letter map: Maurice vs winning

Shared letters muted; letters that set Maurice and winning apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. Maurice (CVVCVCV) and winning (CVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
Maurice
7 ch
winning

Grammar separator: Maurice vs winning

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Maurice is aname and winningaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58332, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Maurice is recorded at frequency rank #11,929, classified as aname, pronounced […]. winning is at rank #46,403, tagged as averb, 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 58332, this pair ranks #866,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Maurice vs winning

Shared letters: i. Private to "Maurice": acemru. Private to "winning": gnw.

"Maurice" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV  ·  "winning" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Maurice ← amurice · maruice · mauirce · maurcie · mauricce · mauriec · maurrice · mmaurice
  • winning ← iwnning · wining · wininng · winnign · winningg · winninng · winnnig · wnining

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Maurice" for "winning" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Maurice" is a name and "winning" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Maurice" vs "winning" - which ranks higher?
"Maurice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,929 in our German list, against #46,403 for "winning". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Maurice" and "winning".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Maurice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "winning" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #866,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Maurice" and "winning" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs winning". 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 #866,881 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