Paolo
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The verdict
“Paolo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,650) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,650
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Silbermünze, die vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert im Kirchenstaat und einigen anderen italienischen Staaten verwendet wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-paolo · Paolo · German
Paolo · rank #18,650 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,650
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH palm
Nearest frequency peer: palm (-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 „Paolo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- oberster
oberster
81,354 corpus weight
- palm
palm
81,352 corpus weight
- Paolo
Paolo
81,351 corpus weight
- Paragraphen
Paragraphen
81,350 corpus weight
- Patriot
Patriot
81,349 corpus weight
- Pfennig
Pfennig
81,348 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Paolo“ 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 | Paolo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Paolo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Paolo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pol", "Paul", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #18,650 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Silbermünze, die vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert im Kirchenstaat und einigen anderen italienischen Staaten verwendet wurde".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Paolo, with forms such as "paloo", "paool", and "poalo". 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, "Pol", "Paul", "pool", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Paolo, spelled P-A-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Silbermünze, die vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert im Kirchenstaat und einigen anderen italienischen Staaten verwendet wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Paolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie zahlen mir nur sechs Paoli täglich und erhalten dafür gutes Mittag- und Abendessen, ohne den Wein.“
„Die Witwe handelt, sie bietet zwei Paoli statt vier; der Händler wirft das Hähnchen mit gekränktem Gesichtsausdruck auf den Tisch; sie wendet sich; der Händler ruft ihr nach, wenn sie mehrere Hähnchen nimmt, so wird er einen Paoli ablassen; sie kommt zurück, betrachtet unschlüssig die Hähnchen, sagt, sie werde zwei nehmen, wenn sie sehr gut seien, aber m…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- paloo
- paool
- poalo
- ppaolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Paolo - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).