kol
[koːl]
The verdict
“kol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,215) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,215
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemie, ohne Plural chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 6; Kohlenstoff
Corpus desk
Index DE-kol · kol · German
kol · rank #34,215 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,215
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Knigge
Nearest frequency peer: Knigge (-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 „kol“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Knebel
Knebel
65,788 corpus weight
- Knigge
Knigge
65,787 corpus weight
- kol
kol
65,786 corpus weight
- Konkurrenzk…
Konkurrenzkampf
65,785 corpus weight
- Konzerts
Konzerts
65,784 corpus weight
- Kopfhörern
Kopfhörern
65,783 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kol“ 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 | kol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kol“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kol is neighbouring look-alikes ("KW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [koːl]. Frequency #34,215 among 4,158 “K” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for kol in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KW", "KV", "KZ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is kol, spelled K-O-L.
Definition
- 1Chemie, ohne Plural chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 6; Kohlenstoff
- 2fossiler Rohstoff; Kohle
- 3ein Stück Kohle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kol är ett av livets viktigaste grundämnen.
Kol kan användas i kondenskraftverk, i kraftvärmeverk och i värmeverk.
This word in other languages
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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