missingvsnotenConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#5,014
“noten” frequency rank
48371
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature missing noten
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss Nominativ Singular bestimmte Form des Substantivs not

Letter map: missing vs noten

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and noten apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. missing runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against noten's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
missing
5 ch
noten

Role in the sentence - missing and noten

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and notenanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48371, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. noten is at rank #5,014, 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 48371, this pair ranks #1,250,995 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs noten

Shared letters: n. Private to "missing": gims. Private to "noten": eot.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "noten" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missingimssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • notennnoten · noetn · notenn · notne · notten · ntoen · onten

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "missing" and "noten" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "noten" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "missing" or "noten"?
"noten" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,014 in our German list, against #43,357 for "missing". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "missing" vs "noten" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "noten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,250,995 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "noten" 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 #1,250,995 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