noll
[nɔl]
The verdict
“noll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,379) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,379
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - null
Corpus desk
Index DE-noll · noll · German
noll · rank #43,379 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,379
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nordafrikaner
Nearest frequency peer: Nordafrikaner (+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 „noll“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- nennenswert
nennenswert
56,625 corpus weight
- Newark
Newark
56,624 corpus weight
- noll
noll
56,622 corpus weight
- Nordafrikan…
Nordafrikaner
56,621 corpus weight
- nordkoreani…
nordkoreanische
56,620 corpus weight
- normative
normative
56,619 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „noll“ 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 | noll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [nɔl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „noll“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for noll is neighbouring look-alikes ("Not", "non", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [nɔl]. Frequency #43,379 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "null".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for noll, with forms such as "nlol", "nnoll", and "nol". 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, "Not", "non", "now", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is noll, spelled N-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1null
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tre minus tre är noll.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nlol
- nnoll
- nol
- onll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of noll - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).