tipicovswindowsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#48,543
“tipico” frequency rank
#2,937
“windows” frequency rank
51480
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tipico windows
Definition typisch Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: tipico vs windows

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

6 ch
tipico
7 ch
windows

Role in the sentence - tipico and windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tipico is anadjective and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51480, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tipico is recorded at frequency rank #48,543, classified as anadj, 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 51480, this pair ranks #1,133,963 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tipico vs windows

Shared letters: io. Private to "tipico": cpt. Private to "windows": dnsw.

"tipico" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tipicoitpico · tiipco · tipcio · tipicco · tipioc · tippico · tpiico · ttipico
  • windowsiwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "tipico" for "windows" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tipico" is an adjective and "windows" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "tipico" or "windows" show up more?
"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #48,543 for "tipico". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "tipico" and "windows". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tipico" 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 #1,133,963 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tipico" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tipico". 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 #1,133,963 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