missingvsstudioTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#2,922
“studio” frequency rank
46279
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature missing studio
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss das Studium

Letter map: missing vs studio

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

7 ch
missing
6 ch
studio

Role in the sentence - missing and studio

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and studioanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46279, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. studio is at rank #2,922, 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 46279, this pair ranks #1,324,586 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs studio

Shared letters: is. Private to "missing": gmn. Private to "studio": dotu.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "studio" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missingimssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • studiosstudio · stduio · sttudio · studdio · studoi · stuido · sutdio · tsudio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "missing" for "studio" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "studio" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "missing" vs "studio" - which ranks higher?
"studio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,922 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "studio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,324,586 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "studio" 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 #1,324,586 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