idole
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,359
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
idole is aGermannoun. It means: Abgott, Abgöttin, Götze, Götzenbild, Idol Pronounced [i.dɔl]. Often confused with ile and isle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idole |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [i.dɔl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for idole is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [i.dɔl]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,359 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Abgott, Abgöttin, Götze, Götzenbild, Idol".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for idole, with forms such as "diole", "iddole", and "idloe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ile", "isle", "Ikone", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is idole, spelled I-D-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abgott, Abgöttin, Götze, Götzenbild, Idol
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: diole,iddole,idloe,idoel,idolle,iodle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for idole
Misspelling Variants of "idole"
Frequency rank: #45,359 in German
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