col
[kɔl]
The verdict
“col” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,860) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,860
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - veraltend, die für einen Körperteil wie den Hals freie Stelle
Corpus desk
Index DE-col · col · German
col · rank #19,860 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,860
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chaotisch
Nearest frequency peer: chaotisch (-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 „col“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Büchner
Büchner
80,145 corpus weight
- Cello
Cello
80,143 corpus weight
- chaotisch
chaotisch
80,142 corpus weight
- col
col
80,141 corpus weight
- Darbietung
Darbietung
80,140 corpus weight
- deins
deins
80,138 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „col“ 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 | col |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „col“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for col is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "Cs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [kɔl]. Frequency #19,860 among 1,273 “C” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for col in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "Cr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is col, spelled C-O-L.
Definition
- 1veraltend, die für einen Körperteil wie den Hals freie Stelle
- 2der diese Stelle umgebende Bereich
- 3der enge Bereich eines weiten Gefäßes
- 4die enge Stelle zwischen zwei geräumigen Bereichen
- 5die Senke zwischen zwei Erhebungen
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).