della
[ˈdella]
The verdict
“della” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #11,845) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,845
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verschmelzung der Präposition di mit dem bestimmten Artikel la
Corpus desk
Index DE-della · della · German
della · rank #11,845 · 4 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,845
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dante
Nearest frequency peer: dante (-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 „della“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Crystal
Crystal
88,159 corpus weight
- Daniela
Daniela
88,158 corpus weight
- dante
dante
88,157 corpus weight
- della
della
88,156 corpus weight
- deutschspra…
deutschsprachige
88,155 corpus weight
- Dominik
Dominik
88,154 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „della“ 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 | della |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [ˈdella] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „della“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for della is neighbouring look-alikes ("doll", "Dill", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [ˈdella]. Frequency #11,845 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Verschmelzung der Präposition di mit dem bestimmten Artikel la".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for della, with forms such as "ddella", "delal", and "dlela". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "doll", "Dill", "Duell", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is della, spelled D-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Verschmelzung der Präposition di mit dem bestimmten Artikel la
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddella
- delal
- dlela
- edlla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of della - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "della", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).