KöllevssinglesTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,855
“Kölle” frequency rank
#3,773
“singles” frequency rank
53628
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: Kölle vs singles

Shared letters muted; letters that set Kölle and singles apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Kölle runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against singles's 7 (CVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Kölle
7 ch
singles

Part-of-speech tell for Kölle / singles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Kölle is aname and singlesaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53628, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Kölle is recorded at frequency rank #49,855, classified as aname, pronounced […]. singles is at rank #3,773, tagged as averb, 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 53628, this pair ranks #1,050,622 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Kölle vs singles

Shared letters: el. Private to "Kölle": . Private to "singles": gins.

"Kölle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "singles" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • singlesisngles · signles · singels · singgles · singless · singlles · singlse · sinlges

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Kölle" for "singles" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Kölle" is a name and "singles" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Kölle" vs "singles" - which ranks higher?
"singles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,773 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Kölle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "singles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,050,622 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Kölle" and "singles" 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 #1,050,622 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