Sold
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,062
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sold is aGermannoun. It means: Bezahlung für das Handwerk eines Soldaten Pronounced [zɔlt]. Often confused with SPD and Süd.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sold is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɔlt]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,062 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sold, with forms such as "osld", "slod", and "sodl". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SPD", "Süd", "son", 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 Sold, spelled S-O-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osld,slod,sodl,soldd,solld,ssold
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sold
Misspelling Variants of "Sold"
Frequency rank: #27,062 in German
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Nearby German words
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