Deutsch homophones
tall/toll
"toll" (#785 written frequency) beats "tall" (#47,046) in this 2-word /tɔːl/ cluster. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /tɔːl/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "toll" leads at #785, with "tall" trailing at #47,046.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "tall" is 4 letters, "toll" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across tall, toll: lt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
tall
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory alt · private a
toll
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory lot · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "tall" when you mean: hoch, groß
- Write "toll" when you mean: einfältig bis verrückt
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.