dell
[dɛl]
The verdict
“dell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,204) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,204
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dell · dell · German
dell · rank #18,204 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,204
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dirigenten
Nearest frequency peer: Dirigenten (+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 „dell“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „dell“ 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 | dell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dɛl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dell“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dell is neighbouring look-alikes ("dl", "der", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [dɛl]. Frequency #18,204 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dellen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for dell, with forms such as "ddell", "dlel", and "edll". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dl", "der", "den", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is dell, spelled D-E-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dellen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddell
- dlel
- edll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dell - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).