missing vs Nahmen, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank: #2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank: 45867
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	missing	Nahmen
Definition	Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss	männlicher Vorname

Letter map: missing vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch

missing

6 ch

Nahmen

Role in the sentence - missing and Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45867, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Nahmen is at rank #2,510, tagged as aname, 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 45867, this pair ranks #1,338,478 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs Nahmen

Shared letters: mn. Private to "missing": gis. Private to "Nahmen": aeh.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

missing ← imssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
Nahmen ← anhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "missing" for "Nahmen" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "Nahmen" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "missing" or "Nahmen"?

"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #43,357 for "missing". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "missing" and "Nahmen".

Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Nahmen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,338,478 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"missing" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "missing 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 #1,338,478 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.