stimmtsvsvolTell them apart

Quick tell: stimmts is a abbrev, vol is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“stimmts” is an abbrev and “vol” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,649
“stimmts” frequency rank
#6,374
“vol” frequency rank
43023
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stimmts vol
Definition stimmt es Flug, des Tieres und der Maschine

Letter map: stimmts vs vol

Shared letters muted; letters that set stimmts and vol apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

7 ch
stimmts
3 ch
vol

Part-of-speech tell for stimmts / vol

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: stimmts is anabbrev and volanoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43023, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stimmts is recorded at frequency rank #36,649, classified as anabbrev, pronounced […]. vol is at rank #6,374, tagged as anoun, 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 43023, this pair ranks #1,431,005 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of stimmts vs vol

Shared letters: none. Private to "stimmts": imst. Private to "vol": lov.

"stimmts" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCCC  ·  "vol" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stimmtssitmmts · sstimmts · stimmtss · stimmtts · stimtms · stimts · stmimts · sttimmts

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "stimmts" for "vol" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stimmts" is an abbrev and "vol" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "stimmts" or "vol" show up more?
"vol" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,374 in our German list, against #36,649 for "stimmts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "stimmts" vs "vol" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "stimmts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vol" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,431,005 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stimmts" and "vol" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs stimmts". 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 #1,431,005 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