Windes vs windows, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Windes” and “windows” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#36,738
“Windes” frequency rank: #2,937
“windows” frequency rank: 39675
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Windes	windows
Definition	Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wind	Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: Windes vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set Windes and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch

Windes

7 ch

windows

Pair insight - Windes / windows

Windes and windows are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39675, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Windes is recorded at frequency rank #36,738, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈvɪndəs]. 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 39675, this pair ranks #1,530,073 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Windes vs windows

Shared letters: dinsw. Private to "Windes": e. Private to "windows": o.

"Windes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

Windes ← iwndes · widnes · winddes · windess · windse · wineds · winndes · wnides
windows ← iwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Windes" for "windows" ever safe?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "Windes" or "windows"?

"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #36,738 for "Windes". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Windes" and "windows".

Full dictionary entry for "Windes" 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 #1,530,073 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Windes" and "windows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Windes vs wirres". 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 #1,530,073 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.