taking vs Timing, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#47,767
“taking” frequency rank: #16,015
“Timing” frequency rank: 63782
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	taking	Timing
Definition	Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs take	zeitliche Abstimmung, Anpassung

Letter map: taking vs Timing

Shared letters muted; letters that set taking and Timing apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

taking

6 ch

Timing

Part-of-speech tell for taking / Timing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: taking is averb and Timinganoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63782, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taking is recorded at frequency rank #47,767, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Timing is at rank #16,015, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈtaɪ̯mɪŋ].

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 63782, this pair ranks #664,551 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taking vs Timing

Shared letters: gint. Private to "taking": ak. Private to "Timing": m.

"taking" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "Timing" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

taking ← atking · taikng · takign · takingg · takinng · takking · taknig · tkaing
Timing ← itming · tiimng · timign · timingg · timinng · timming · timnig · tmiing

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "taking" and "Timing" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary German text, does "taking" or "Timing" show up more?

"Timing" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,015 in our German list, against #47,767 for "taking". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "taking" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Timing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #664,551 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"taking" and "Timing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs taking". 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 #664,551 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.