elle
[ɛl]
The verdict
“elle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,887) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,887
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sie
Corpus desk
Index DE-elle · elle · German
elle · rank #19,887 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,887
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Elfen
Nearest frequency peer: Elfen (-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 „elle“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Einzelfällen
Einzelfällen
80,117 corpus weight
- einzutreten
einzutreten
80,116 corpus weight
- Elfen
Elfen
80,115 corpus weight
- elle
elle
80,114 corpus weight
- entrichten
entrichten
80,112 corpus weight
- Entwicklung…
Entwicklungshilfe
80,111 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „elle“ 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 | elle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ɛl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „elle“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for elle is neighbouring look-alikes ("eye", "eve", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ɛl]. Frequency #19,887 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "sie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for elle, with forms such as "ele", "elel", and "lele". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eye", "eve", "ewe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 elle, spelled E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1sie
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how elle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier encore, elle m’a promis de venir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ele
- elel
- lele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of elle - 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 "elle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).