Pollen
[ˈpɔlən]
The verdict
“Pollen” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,389
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blütenstaub
Corpus desk
Index DE-pollen · Pollen · German
Pollen · rank #21,389 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,389
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Popmusik
Nearest frequency peer: Popmusik (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Pollen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Personals
Personals
78,616 corpus weight
- Philharmonie
Philharmonie
78,615 corpus weight
- Podest
Podest
78,614 corpus weight
- Pollen
Pollen
78,612 corpus weight
- Popmusik
Popmusik
78,611 corpus weight
- progressiven
progressiven
78,609 corpus weight
What this shows „Pollen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Pollen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɔlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Pollen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Pollen (IPA [ˈpɔlən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,389 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pollen, with forms such as "opllen", "plolen", and "poleln". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Posen", "Poren", "Posten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Pollen, spelled P-O-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Blütenstaub
- 2ein einzelnes Korn von [1], also des Pollens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pollen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist allergisch gegen den Pollen bestimmter Pflanzen.
„Der Wind weht Pollen aus den Pappeln und treibt sie über das Wasser.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opllen
- plolen
- poleln
- pollenn
- pollne
- ppollen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pollen - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pollen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).