color
[ˈkʌlɚ]
The verdict
“color” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,846
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - farbig, Farb-
Corpus desk
Index DE-color · color · German
color · rank #17,846 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,846
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH common
Nearest frequency peer: common (+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 „color“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Chirurgen
Chirurgen
82,159 corpus weight
- Cindy
Cindy
82,157 corpus weight
- color
color
82,155 corpus weight
- common
common
82,154 corpus weight
- concordia
concordia
82,153 corpus weight
- consulting
consulting
82,152 corpus weight
What this shows „color“ 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 | color |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkʌlɚ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „color“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around color (IPA [ˈkʌlɚ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,846 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "farbig, Farb-".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for color, with forms such as "ccolor", "cloor", and "collor". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "cool", "cook", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is color, spelled C-O-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1farbig, Farb-
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how color appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I bought a new color TV.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolor
- cloor
- collor
- colorr
- colro
- coolr
- oclor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of color - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).