wählt vs Wohl, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“wählt” is a verb and “Wohl” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,697
“wählt” frequency rank: #174
“Wohl” frequency rank: 3871
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	wählt	Wohl
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wählen	Zustand des Gutgehens, körperlich und geistig, auch Gesundheit und Glück

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set wählt and Wohl apart are highlighted. They share 3 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

wählt

4 ch

Wohl

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: wählt is [vɛːlt] while Wohl is [voːl]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

wählt is recorded at frequency rank #3,697, classified as averb, pronounced [vɛːlt]. Wohl is at rank #174, tagged as anoun, pronounced [voːl].

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 3871, this pair ranks #1,999,163 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of wählt vs Wohl

Shared letters: hlw. Private to "wählt": tä. Private to "Wohl": o.

"wählt" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "Wohl" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

Wohl ← owhl · whol · wohhl · wohll · wolh · wwohl

Frequency comparison

wählt#3,697

Wohl#174

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "wählt" and "Wohl" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "wählt" is a verb and "Wohl" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "wählt" or "Wohl"?

"Wohl" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #174 in our German list, against #3,697 for "wählt". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering wählt vs Wohl

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a verb, it's “wählt”; for a noun, it's “Wohl”.
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