missingvsPollockConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#49,968
“Pollock” frequency rank
93325
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature missing Pollock
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: missing vs Pollock

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and Pollock apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

7 ch
missing
7 ch
Pollock

Role in the sentence - missing and Pollock

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and Pollockaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93325, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Pollock is at rank #49,968, 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 93325, this pair ranks #23,570 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs Pollock

Shared letters: none. Private to "missing": gimns. Private to "Pollock": cklop.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "Pollock" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missingimssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • Pollockopllock · plolock · pollcok · pollocck · pollockk · pollokc · polock · pololck

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "missing" for "Pollock" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "Pollock" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "missing" vs "Pollock" - which ranks higher?
"missing" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,357 in our German list, against #49,968 for "Pollock". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Pollock" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #23,570 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "Pollock" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pollock 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 #23,570 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