tall
[tɔːl]
The verdict
“tall” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,046) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,046
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hoch, groß
Corpus desk
Index DE-tall · tall · German
tall · rank #47,046 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,046
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH taktischer
Nearest frequency peer: taktischer (-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 „tall“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Sümpfe
Sümpfe
52,958 corpus weight
- Tagesgeld
Tagesgeld
52,957 corpus weight
- taktischer
taktischer
52,956 corpus weight
- tall
tall
52,955 corpus weight
- teatro
teatro
52,953 corpus weight
- thy
thy
52,952 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „tall“ 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 | tall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tɔːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „tall“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tall is neighbouring look-alikes ("Tl", "Tat", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [tɔːl]. Frequency #47,046 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "hoch, groß".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for tall, with forms such as "atll", "tlal", and "ttall". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tl", "Tat", "til", 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 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 tall, spelled T-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1hoch, groß
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The figure is that of a tall, thin man."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atll
- tlal
- ttall
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tall - 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 "tall", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).