colonel
[ˈkɜːnəl]
The verdict
“colonel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,249
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Oberst
Corpus desk
Index DE-colonel · colonel · German
colonel · rank #17,249 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,249
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH codex
Nearest frequency peer: codex (-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 „colonel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bürgerlich
bürgerlich
82,756 corpus weight
- Canyon
Canyon
82,755 corpus weight
- chemisch
chemisch
82,754 corpus weight
- codex
codex
82,753 corpus weight
- colonel
colonel
82,752 corpus weight
- contact
contact
82,749 corpus weight
What this shows „colonel“ 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 | colonel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɜːnəl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „colonel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around colonel (IPA [ˈkɜːnəl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,249 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Oberst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colonel, with forms such as "ccolonel", "cloonel", and "collonel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cologne", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is colonel, spelled C-O-L-O-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1der Oberst
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolonel
- cloonel
- collonel
- colnoel
- coloenl
- colonell
- colonle
- colonnel
- coolnel
- oclonel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colonel - 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 "colonel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).