contevscooleTell them apart

Quick tell: conte is a noun, coole is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#36,860
“conte” frequency rank
#6,404
“coole” frequency rank
43264
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conte coole
Definition Graf Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs cool

Letter map: conte vs coole

Shared letters muted; letters that set conte and coole apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
conte
5 ch
coole

Role in the sentence - conte and coole

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conte is anoun and cooleanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43264, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conte is recorded at frequency rank #36,860, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. coole is at rank #6,404, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈkuːlə].

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 43264, this pair ranks #1,423,574 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conte vs coole

Shared letters: ceo. Private to "conte": nt. Private to "coole": l.

"conte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "coole" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • contecconte · cnote · conet · connte · contte · cotne · ocnte
  • cooleccoole · coloe · cooel · coolle · ocole

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "conte" for "coole" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conte" is a noun and "coole" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "conte" or "coole"?
"coole" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,404 in our German list, against #36,860 for "conte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "conte" and "coole".

  • Full dictionary entry for "conte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "coole" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,423,574 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conte" and "coole" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conte 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 #1,423,574 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