boll
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The verdict
“boll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,868) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,868
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Kornhülse, die Spreu
Corpus desk
Index DE-boll · boll · German
boll · rank #23,868 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,868
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bohrungen
Nearest frequency peer: Bohrungen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „boll“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Blickfeld
Blickfeld
76,136 corpus weight
- blitze
blitze
76,135 corpus weight
- Bohrungen
Bohrungen
76,134 corpus weight
- boll
boll
76,133 corpus weight
- Brote
Brote
76,132 corpus weight
- Brüsseler
Brüsseler
76,131 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „boll“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | boll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „boll“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boll is neighbouring look-alikes ("Bot", "Box", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #23,868 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "die Kornhülse, die Spreu".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for boll, with forms such as "bboll", "blol", and "bol". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bot", "Box", "boy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is boll, spelled B-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1die Kornhülse, die Spreu
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboll
- blol
- bol
- obll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boll - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "boll", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).