del
The verdict
“del” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,719) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,719
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bezeichnung für ∂, ein Symbol für die partielle Ableitung – es ist nicht mit dem kleinen Delta δ zu verwechseln
Corpus desk
Index DE-del · del · German
del · rank #3,719 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,719
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH day
Nearest frequency peer: day (-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 „del“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- darstellt
darstellt
96,285 corpus weight
- Date
Date
96,284 corpus weight
- day
day
96,283 corpus weight
- del
del
96,282 corpus weight
- demokratisc…
demokratischen
96,281 corpus weight
- echter
echter
96,280 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „del“ 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 | del |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „del“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for del is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "do", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #3,719 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Bezeichnung für ∂, ein Symbol für die partielle Ableitung – es ist nicht mit dem kleinen Delta δ zu verwechseln".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for del, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "do", "dm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is del, spelled D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für ∂, ein Symbol für die partielle Ableitung – es ist nicht mit dem kleinen Delta δ zu verwechseln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how del appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich möchte die Funktion f nach y ableiten, del f nach del y also.
„Dafür wurde ein neuer Operator definiert: (∂f(x,y))/(∂x) […] gesprochen: "del f nach del x"“
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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