Drill
[dʁɪl]
The verdict
“Drill” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #41,749 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #41,749
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vermittlung besonderer Fertigkeiten und Festigung bestimmter Eigenschaften bei Menschen, vor allem Soldaten oder Sportlern, und Tieren, vor allem Hunden oder Pferden, unter der Maßgabe des unbeding...
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 | Drill |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʁɪl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Drill” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Drill is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʁɪl]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,749 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vermittlung besonderer Fertigkeiten und Festigung bestimmter Eigenschaften bei Menschen, vor allem Soldaten oder Sportlern, und Tieren, vor allem Hunden oder Pferden, unter der Maßgabe des unbeding...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Drill, with forms such as "ddrill", "dirll", and "dril". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "drin", "Duell", "Drive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Drill, spelled D-R-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Vermittlung besonderer Fertigkeiten und Festigung bestimmter Eigenschaften bei Menschen, vor allem Soldaten oder Sportlern, und Tieren, vor allem Hunden oder Pferden, unter der Maßgabe des unbedingten Lernerfolgs
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddrill,dirll,dril,drlil,drrill,rdill
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Drill - 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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Using “Drill”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-R-I-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dʁɪl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “drin” - see the side-by-side comparison. Drill vs drin
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.