kill
[kɪl]
The verdict
“kill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,845) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,845
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kill · kill · German
kill · rank #14,845 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,845
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kaufst
Nearest frequency peer: kaufst (-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 „kill“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- kaiserliche
kaiserliche
85,159 corpus weight
- kan
kan
85,158 corpus weight
- kaufst
kaufst
85,157 corpus weight
- kill
kill
85,156 corpus weight
- kontrollier…
kontrollierte
85,155 corpus weight
- KP
KP
85,154 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kill“ 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 | kill |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɪl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kill“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kill is neighbouring look-alikes ("Kim", "Klo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [kɪl]. Frequency #14,845 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kill, with forms such as "ikll", "kil", and "kkill". 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, "Kim", "Klo", "kit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kill, spelled K-I-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikll
- kil
- kkill
- klil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kill - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).