doll
[dɔl]
The verdict
“doll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,338) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,338
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - für toll
Corpus desk
Index DE-doll · doll · German
doll · rank #13,338 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,338
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH differenziert
Nearest frequency peer: differenziert (-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 „doll“
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86,663 corpus weight
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86,661 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „doll“ 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 | doll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [dɔl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „doll“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for doll is neighbouring look-alikes ("don", "dom", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [dɔl]. Frequency #13,338 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for doll, with forms such as "ddoll", "dlol", and "dol". 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, "don", "dom", "DSL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is doll, spelled D-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1für toll
- 2sehr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dascha man nich so doll.
Tut das doll weh?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoll
- dlol
- dol
- odll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doll - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doll", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).