KöllevssourcesTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,855
“Kölle” frequency rank
#47,003
“sources” frequency rank
96858
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: Kölle vs sources

Shared letters muted; letters that set Kölle and sources apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
Kölle
7 ch
sources

Part-of-speech tell for Kölle / sources

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Kölle is aname and sourcesaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 96858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Kölle is recorded at frequency rank #49,855, classified as aname, pronounced […]. sources is at rank #47,003, 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 96858, this pair ranks #5,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Kölle vs sources

Shared letters: e. Private to "Kölle": klö. Private to "sources": corsu.

"Kölle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "sources" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sourcesosurces · soruces · soucres · sourcces · sourcess · sourcse · sourecs · sourrces

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Kölle" and "sources" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Kölle" is a name and "sources" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Kölle" or "sources" show up more?
"sources" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #47,003 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Kölle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sources" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Kölle" and "sources" 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 #5,686 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