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

#39,984
“halde” frequency rank
#1,482
“Halle” frequency rank
41466
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature halde Halle
Definition Abraumhalde großer und hoher Aufenthalts-, Empfangs- oder Lagerraum im Erdgeschoss; historisch meist unbeheizt und von Säulen getragen, im Gegensatz zum Saal

Letter map: halde vs Halle

Shared letters muted; letters that set halde and Halle apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. halde and Halle follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

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halde
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Corpus notes: halde and Halle

halde and Halle 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 a single letter - d in “halde” becomes l in “Halle”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41466, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

halde is recorded at frequency rank #39,984, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Halle is at rank #1,482, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈhalə].

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 41466, this pair ranks #1,478,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of halde vs Halle

Shared letters: aehl. Private to "halde": d. Private to "Halle": -.

"halde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Halle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • halde ← ahlde · hadle · haldde · haled · hallde · hhalde · hlade
  • Halle ← ahlle · halel · hhalle · hlale

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "halde" and "Halle" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by a single letter - d in “halde” becomes l in “Halle”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "halde" or "Halle"?
"Halle" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,482 in our German list, against #39,984 for "halde". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "halde" and "Halle". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "halde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Halle" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,478,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "halde" and "Halle" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "halde 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 #1,478,520 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