kille
[ˈkɪlə]
The verdict
“kille” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kille · kille · German
kille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkɪlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kille“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kille is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkɪlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kille, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is kille, spelled K-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs killen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.