balls
[bɔːlz]
The verdict
“balls” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,255
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs ball
Corpus desk
Index DE-balls · balls · German
balls · rank #24,255 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Balladen
Nearest frequency peer: Balladen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „balls“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bahrain
Bahrain
75,748 corpus weight
- Balladen
Balladen
75,747 corpus weight
- balls
balls
75,746 corpus weight
- Basics
Basics
75,745 corpus weight
- Bedarfs
Bedarfs
75,744 corpus weight
- bedingungsl…
bedingungslos
75,743 corpus weight
What this shows „balls“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɔːlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „balls“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around balls (IPA [bɔːlz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,255 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs ball".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for balls, with forms such as "ablls", "ballss", and "bals". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bill", "Bass", "bull", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is balls, spelled B-A-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs ball
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablls
- ballss
- bals
- balsl
- bballs
- blals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balls - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "balls", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).