missingvsRaymondWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#13,218
“Raymond” frequency rank
56575
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: missing vs Raymond

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and Raymond apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. missing (CVCCVCC) and Raymond (CVVCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
missing
7 ch
Raymond

Part-of-speech tell for missing / Raymond

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and Raymondaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56575, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Raymond is at rank #13,218, 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 56575, this pair ranks #934,975 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs Raymond

Shared letters: mn. Private to "missing": gis. Private to "Raymond": adory.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "Raymond" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missing ← imssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • Raymond ← arymond · ramyond · raymmond · raymnod · raymodn · raymondd · raymonnd · rayomnd

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "missing" and "Raymond" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "Raymond" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "missing" or "Raymond" show up more?
"Raymond" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,218 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Raymond" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #934,975 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "Raymond" 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 #934,975 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