Sold
[zɔlt]
The verdict
“Sold” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,062
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bezahlung für das Handwerk eines Soldaten
Corpus desk
Index DE-sold · Sold · German
Sold · rank #27,062 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,062
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spaten
Nearest frequency peer: Spaten (+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 „Sold“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Skeptiker
Skeptiker
72,943 corpus weight
- Skigebiet
Skigebiet
72,942 corpus weight
- slave
slave
72,941 corpus weight
- Sold
Sold
72,939 corpus weight
- Spaten
Spaten
72,938 corpus weight
- Stalingrad
Stalingrad
72,935 corpus weight
What this shows „Sold“ 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 | Sold |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɔlt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sold“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sold (IPA [zɔlt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,062 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sold, with forms such as "osld", "slod", and "sodl". 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, "SPD", "Süd", "son", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Sold, spelled S-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1Bezahlung für das Handwerk eines Soldaten
- 2der zum Unterhalt nötige Lohn Wehrpflichtiger (im Wehr- oder Zivildienst)
- 3Bezahlung für eine oft als anrüchig empfundene Tätigkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Höhe des Soldes muss immer wieder neu festgesetzt werden.
„Die deutschen Soldaten bekamen ihren monatlichen Sold in französischen Francs ausbezahlt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osld
- slod
- sodl
- soldd
- solld
- ssold
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sold - 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 "Sold", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).