communitiesvsKölleWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: communities is a noun, Kölle is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“communities” is a noun and “Kölle” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,353
“communities” frequency rank
#49,855
“Kölle” frequency rank
76208
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature communities Kölle
Definition Plural des Substantivs community deutscher Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: communities vs Kölle

Shared letters muted; letters that set communities and Kölle apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. communities runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against Kölle's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
communities
5 ch
Kölle

Part-of-speech tell for communities / Kölle

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: communities is anoun and Kölleaname. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76208, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

communities is recorded at frequency rank #26,353, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Kölle is at rank #49,855, tagged as aname, 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 76208, this pair ranks #289,300 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of communities vs Kölle

Shared letters: e. Private to "communities": cimnostu. Private to "Kölle": klö.

"communities" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC  ·  "Kölle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communities ← ccommunities · cmomunities · commnuities · commuinties · communiites · communiteis · communitiess · communitise

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "communities" for "Kölle" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "communities" is a noun and "Kölle" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "communities" or "Kölle" show up more?
"communities" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,353 in our German list, against #49,855 for "Kölle". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "communities" and "Kölle".

  • Full dictionary entry for "communities" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Kölle" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #289,300 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "communities" and "Kölle" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Kölle vs puzzles". 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 #289,300 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