shows vs windows, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#8,130
“shows” frequency rank: #2,937
“windows” frequency rank: 11067
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	shows	windows
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs show	Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: shows vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set shows and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

shows

7 ch

windows

Part-of-speech tell for shows / windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shows is averb and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11067, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

shows is recorded at frequency rank #8,130, 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 11067, this pair ranks #1,971,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of shows vs windows

Shared letters: osw. Private to "shows": h. Private to "windows": din.

"shows" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

shows ← hsows · shhows · shosw · showss · showws · shwos · sohws · sshows
windows ← iwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "shows" and "windows" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "shows" is a verb and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "shows" 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 #8,130 for "shows". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "shows" 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 #1,971,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"shows" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shows". 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 #1,971,847 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.