kidsvsKölleWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#4,713
“kids” frequency rank
#49,855
“Kölle” frequency rank
54568
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kids Kölle
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kid deutscher Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: kids vs Kölle

Shared letters muted; letters that set kids and Kölle apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. kids runs 4 letters (CVCC) against Kölle's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
kids
5 ch
Kölle

Part-of-speech tell for kids / Kölle

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: kids is averb and Kölleaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54568, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kids is recorded at frequency rank #4,713, classified as averb, 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 54568, this pair ranks #1,013,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of kids vs Kölle

Shared letters: k. Private to "kids": dis. Private to "Kölle": elö.

"kids" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Kölle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kidsikds · kdis · kidds · kidss · kisd · kkids

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "kids" and "Kölle" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "kids" is a verb and "Kölle" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "kids" or "Kölle" show up more?
"kids" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,713 in our German list, against #49,855 for "Kölle". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "kids" and "Kölle". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "kids" 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 #1,013,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kids" 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 #1,013,777 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