sowohl

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for sowohl is 6 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zoˈvoːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #663 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das/der eine genauso wie das/der andere".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sowohl, with forms such as "oswohl", "soowhl", and "sowhol". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 sowohl, spelled S-O-W-O-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.