pull
[pʊl]
The verdict
“pull” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,770) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,770
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pullen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pull · pull · German
pull · rank #33,770 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,770
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Provisionen
Nearest frequency peer: Provisionen (-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 „pull“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- primo
primo
66,235 corpus weight
- Prisma
Prisma
66,234 corpus weight
- property
property
66,233 corpus weight
- Provisionen
Provisionen
66,232 corpus weight
- pull
pull
66,231 corpus weight
- Qatar
Qatar
66,229 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pull“ 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 | pull |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʊl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pull“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pull is neighbouring look-alikes ("PUR", "put", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [pʊl]. Frequency #33,770 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pullen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pull, with forms such as "plul", "ppull", and "pul". 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, "PUR", "put", "Puls", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is pull, spelled P-U-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pullen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- plul
- ppull
- pul
- upll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pull - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).