voll vs Voss, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“voll” is an adjective and “Voss” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#591
“voll” frequency rank: #10,773
“Voss” frequency rank: 11364
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	voll	Voss
Definition	mit etwas so vollständig gefüllt, dass absolut nichts mehr hinein passt oder hinein darf oder hinein gehört	Fuchs

Letter map: voll vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set voll and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

voll

4 ch

Voss

Role in the sentence - voll and Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: voll is anadjective and Vossanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voll is recorded at frequency rank #591, classified as anadj, pronounced [fɔl]. Voss is at rank #10,773, 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 11364, this pair ranks #1,970,264 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voll vs Voss

Shared letters: ov. Private to "voll": l. Private to "Voss": s.

"voll" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

voll ← ovll · vlol · vvoll
Voss ← ovss · voß · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "voll" and "Voss" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voll" is an adjective and "Voss" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "voll" vs "Voss" - which ranks higher?

"voll" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #591 in our German list, against #10,773 for "Voss". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "voll" and "Voss". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "voll" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,970,264 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"voll" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Voss". 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 #1,970,264 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.