missingvswarrenConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#43,357
“missing” frequency rank
#13,273
“warren” frequency rank
56630
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature missing warren
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs miss Kaninchenbau

Letter map: missing vs warren

Shared letters muted; letters that set missing and warren apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. missing runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against warren's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
missing
6 ch
warren

Role in the sentence - missing and warren

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: missing is averb and warrenanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56630, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

missing is recorded at frequency rank #43,357, classified as averb, pronounced […]. warren is at rank #13,273, 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 56630, this pair ranks #932,843 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of missing vs warren

Shared letters: n. Private to "missing": gims. Private to "warren": aerw.

"missing" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "warren" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • missing ← imssing · mising · misisng · missign · missingg · missinng · missnig · mißing
  • warren ← awrren · warern · warrenn · warrne · wraren · wwarren

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "missing" for "warren" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "missing" is a verb and "warren" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "missing" or "warren" show up more?
"warren" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,273 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "missing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "warren" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #932,843 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "missing" and "warren" 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 #932,843 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