solle
[ˈzɔlə]
The verdict
“solle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,857) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,857
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sollen
Corpus desk
Index DE-solle · solle · German
solle · rank #2,857 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,857
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sichern
Nearest frequency peer: sichern (-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 „solle“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- sauber
sauber
97,147 corpus weight
- sichern
sichern
97,145 corpus weight
- solle
solle
97,144 corpus weight
- Taten
Taten
97,143 corpus weight
- Trend
Trend
97,142 corpus weight
- unteren
unteren
97,141 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „solle“ 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 | solle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzɔlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „solle“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for solle is neighbouring look-alikes ("solo", "some", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈzɔlə]. Frequency #2,857 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for solle, with forms such as "oslle", "slole", and "solel". 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, "solo", "some", "Soul", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is solle, spelled S-O-L-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sollen
- 23. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sollen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oslle
- slole
- solel
- ssolle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of solle - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "solle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).