missingvspalaceWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#14,886
“palace” frequency rank
58243
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature missing palace
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss ein besonders aufwendig ausgestattetes Gebäude; Palast

Letter map: missing vs palace

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and palace apart highlighted. No shared letter run. missing runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against palace's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
missing
6 ch
palace

Role in the sentence - missing and palace

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and palaceanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58243, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. palace is at rank #14,886, 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 58243, this pair ranks #870,318 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs palace

Shared letters: none. Private to "missing": gimns. Private to "palace": acelp.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "palace" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missing ← imssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • palace ← aplace · paalce · palacce · palaec · palcae · pallace · plaace · ppalace

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "missing" and "palace" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "palace" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "missing" or "palace" show up more?
"palace" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,886 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

You've compared "missing" and "palace". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "palace" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #870,318 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "palace" 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 #870,318 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