sharingvswindowsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,768
“sharing” frequency rank
#2,937
“windows” frequency rank
24705
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sharing windows
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs share Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: sharing vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set sharing and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch
sharing
7 ch
windows

Part-of-speech tell for sharing / windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sharing is averb and windowsanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24705, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sharing is recorded at frequency rank #21,768, classified as averb, pronounced […]. windows is at rank #2,937, 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 24705, this pair ranks #1,843,906 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of sharing vs windows

Shared letters: ins. Private to "sharing": aghr. Private to "windows": dow.

"sharing" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC  ·  "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sharinghsaring · sahring · shairng · sharign · sharingg · sharinng · sharnig · sharring
  • windowsiwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sharing" and "windows" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sharing" is a verb and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sharing" vs "windows" - which ranks higher?
"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #21,768 for "sharing". 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 "sharing" and "windows".

  • Full dictionary entry for "sharing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "windows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,843,906 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sharing" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sharing". 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 #1,843,906 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