Pol
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,751
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Pol is aGermannoun. It means: einer der beiden Endpunkte der Erdachse; auch bei anderen Himmelskörpern, die sich um die eigene Achse drehen; oder auch von der Erde (ggf. auch von einem anderen Himmelskörper) aus gesehen, der nö... Pronounced [poːl]. It ranks #5,751 in German word frequency. Often confused with PS and Pr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Pol is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,751 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Pol in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "PV", 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 Pol, spelled P-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer der beiden Endpunkte der Erdachse; auch bei anderen Himmelskörpern, die sich um die eigene Achse drehen; oder auch von der Erde (ggf. auch von einem anderen Himmelskörper) aus gesehen, der nördliche/südliche Himmelspol
- 2einer der beiden Austrittspunkte einer Stromquelle
- 3analog zu [2] ein Kraftpunkt oder Kraftfeldbereich in einem Magnetfeld
- 4einer von zwei Punkten mit einander gegenüberliegenden Eigenschaften
- 5ein besonders ausgezeichneter Punkt mit besonderer Lage oder besonderer Bedeutung, die über einen längeren Zeitraum relativ fest ist oder fest erscheint
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Frequency rank: #5,751 in German
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