Ilse
[ˈɪlzə]
The verdict
“Ilse” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,836) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,836
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-ilse · Ilse · German
Ilse · rank #14,836 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,836
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Identifizieru…
Nearest frequency peer: Identifizierung (-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 „Ilse“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- holy
holy
85,168 corpus weight
- höchstwahrs…
höchstwahrscheinlich
85,167 corpus weight
- Identifizie…
Identifizierung
85,166 corpus weight
- Ilse
Ilse
85,165 corpus weight
- individuell…
individueller
85,164 corpus weight
- inhaltlichen
inhaltlichen
85,163 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ilse“ 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 | Ilse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɪlzə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ilse“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ilse is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "ist", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈɪlzə]. Frequency #14,836 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ilse, including "illse" and "ilsse". 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, "is", "ist", "ins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Ilse, spelled I-L-S-E.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ilse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ilse ist Erzieherin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illse
- ilsse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ilse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Ilse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).