Kohl
[koːl]
The verdict
“Kohl” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,201
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu den Kreuzblütengewächsen (Brassicaceae) gehörende Gemüsepflanze (Brassica oleracea)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kohl · Kohl · German
Kohl · rank #7,201 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,201
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kleinsten
Nearest frequency peer: kleinsten (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Kohl“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- kehren
kehren
92,803 corpus weight
- keines
keines
92,802 corpus weight
- kleinsten
kleinsten
92,801 corpus weight
- Kohl
Kohl
92,800 corpus weight
- label
label
92,799 corpus weight
- Lampe
Lampe
92,798 corpus weight
What this shows „Kohl“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Kohl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kohl“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Kohl (IPA [koːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,201 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kohl, with forms such as "khol", "kkohl", and "kohhl". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Kuh", "kWh", "kot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kohl, spelled K-O-H-L.
Definition
- 1zu den Kreuzblütengewächsen (Brassicaceae) gehörende Gemüsepflanze (Brassica oleracea)
- 2Speise, die aus der unter [1] beschriebenen Gemüsepflanze besteht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kohl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Hinter den schönen Bäumen wächst alles, was das Haus bedarf; außer den herrlichsten Früchten der schönste Kohl und tüchtiges schmackhaftes Gemüse überhaupt, wie man es weit und breit nicht findet.“
„Er nimmt ein Sujet aus dem Judentum, aber er tauft seine Juden samt und sonders, er übersetzt sie fein säuberlich ins Düsseldorfsche, und nun sitzen die deutschen Männer und Weibsen und sehen, so hübsch sie sind, doch nur aus wie Düsseldorfer Gärtner, denen die Raupen den Kohl aufgefressen haben.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- khol
- kkohl
- kohhl
- kohll
- kolh
- okhl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kohl - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Kohl", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).