Kohle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,464
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Kohle is aGermannoun. It means: dunkelbraune oder schwarze, stark kohlenstoffhaltige, brennbare Substanz, meist aus fossilisierten Pflanzen entstanden Pronounced [ˈkoːlə]. It ranks #3,464 in German word frequency. Often confused with kol and Köln.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kohle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoːlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kohle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkoːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,464 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kohle, with forms such as "khole", "kkohle", and "kohel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kol", "Köln", "kühl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Kohle, spelled K-O-H-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dunkelbraune oder schwarze, stark kohlenstoffhaltige, brennbare Substanz, meist aus fossilisierten Pflanzen entstanden
- 2Geld
- 3zum Zeichnen verwendete Holzkohle
- 4elektrische Schleifkontakte eines Elektromotors oder Generators
- 5Holzkohle
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: khole,kkohle,kohel,kohhle,kohlle,kolhe,okhle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kohle
Misspelling Variants of "Kohle"
Frequency rank: #3,464 in German
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