polo
[ˈpɔlo]
The verdict
“polo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,722) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,722
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Polohemd
Corpus desk
Index DE-polo · polo · German
polo · rank #10,722 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,722
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Perlen
Nearest frequency peer: Perlen (-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 „polo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- passte
passte
89,282 corpus weight
- patent
patent
89,281 corpus weight
- Perlen
Perlen
89,280 corpus weight
- polo
polo
89,279 corpus weight
- Projektes
Projektes
89,278 corpus weight
- protestieren
protestieren
89,277 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „polo“ 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 | polo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɔlo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „polo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for polo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pro", "Pop", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpɔlo]. Frequency #10,722 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "das Polohemd".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for polo, with forms such as "oplo", "ploo", and "pollo". 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, "Pro", "Pop", "Pos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is polo, spelled P-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1das Polohemd
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplo
- ploo
- pollo
- ppolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "polo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).