stola

noun

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The verdict

“stola” is uncommon German (frequency #92,264 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,264
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kleidung, Gewand

Corpus desk

Index DE-stola · stola · German

stola · rank #92,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,264
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Stoffwechsels…

Nearest frequency peer: Stoffwechselstörungen (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „stola“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stola“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stola
PropertyValue
Headwordstola
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#92,264
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „stola“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).stolafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Stoffwechselstörungen“ (#92,263), „strafbares“ (#92,265), „Stimulus“ (#92,262). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „stola“ bei #92,264. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stola is uncommon German at frequency #92,264 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stola, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is stola, spelled S-T-O-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Kleidung, Gewand
  2. 2
    langes Kleid der vornehmen Frau; Stola
  3. 3
    langes Obergewand, das von beiden Geschlechtern getragen wird; Stola

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how stola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „itaque oppido capto, viris interfectis, civitate deflagrata matronas eorum in servitutem abduxerunt, nec sunt passi stolas neque ornatus matronales deponere, non uti una triumpho ducerentur, sed aeterna, servitutis exemplo gravi, contumelia pressae poenas pendere viderentur pro civitate.“ (Vitr. 1, 1, 5)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stola"?
"stola" is spelled S-T-O-L-A.
What does "stola" mean?
As a noun, "stola" means: Kleidung, Gewand
What language does "stola" come from?
"stola" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stola", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

säume#92,285tasks#92,294Texel#92,303Tiara#92,307

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list