VillenvsvollerConfusable pair

Quick tell: Villen is a noun, voller is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Villen” is a noun and “voller” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,078
“Villen” frequency rank
#1,310
“voller” frequency rank
20388
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Villen voller
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Villa angefüllt mit; mit sehr viel

Where the eye mixes Villen and voller

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. Villen and voller follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
Villen
6 ch
voller

Visual trap between Villen and voller

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Villen is [ˈvɪlən] while voller is [ˈfɔlɐ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs preposition), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20388, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Villen is recorded at frequency rank #19,078, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈvɪlən]. voller is at rank #1,310, tagged as aprep, pronounced [ˈfɔlɐ].

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 20388, this pair ranks #1,898,230 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Villen vs voller

Shared letters: elv. Private to "Villen": in. Private to "voller": or.

"Villen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "voller" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Villen ← ivllen · vileln · vilen · villenn · villne · vlilen · vvillen
  • voller ← ovller · vloler · volelr · voler · vollerr · vollre · vvoller

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Villen" for "voller" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Villen" is a noun and "voller" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Villen" vs "voller" - which ranks higher?
"voller" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,310 in our German list, against #19,078 for "Villen". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Villen" and "voller" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Villen" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voller" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,898,230 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Villen" and "voller" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Vilbel vs Villen". 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 #1,898,230 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