isle
[aɪl]
The verdict
“isle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,260) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,260
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Insel oder kleine Insel
Corpus desk
Index DE-isle · isle · German
isle · rank #41,260 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,260
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH ironischerwei…
Nearest frequency peer: ironischerweise (-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 „isle“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- innehat
innehat
58,745 corpus weight
- Inventur
Inventur
58,744 corpus weight
- ironischerw…
ironischerweise
58,742 corpus weight
- isle
isle
58,741 corpus weight
- jagten
jagten
58,739 corpus weight
- join
join
58,738 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „isle“ 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 | isle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɪl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „isle“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for isle is neighbouring look-alikes ("ist", "iss", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [aɪl]. Frequency #41,260 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "die Insel oder kleine Insel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for isle, with forms such as "isel", "islle", and "issle". 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, "ist", "iss", "ISO", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is isle, spelled I-S-L-E.
Definition
- 1die Insel oder kleine Insel
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isel
- islle
- issle
- sile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of isle - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).