hol
[hoːl]
The verdict
“hol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,270) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,270
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs holen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hol · hol · German
hol · rank #5,270 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,270
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hierher
Nearest frequency peer: hierher (-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 „hol“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- green
green
94,734 corpus weight
- herausgegeb…
herausgegeben
94,733 corpus weight
- hierher
hierher
94,732 corpus weight
- hol
hol
94,731 corpus weight
- Höhle
Höhle
94,730 corpus weight
- id
id
94,729 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hol“ 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 | hol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hoːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hol“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hol is neighbouring look-alikes ("HP", "Hz", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [hoːl]. Frequency #5,270 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs holen".
Zero misspellings are on record for hol in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HP", "Hz", "hör", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is hol, spelled H-O-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs holen
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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