vila
[ˈbiɫə]
The verdict
“vila” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,600) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,600
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Dorf, die Ortschaft, der Marktflecken
Corpus desk
Index DE-vila · vila · German
vila · rank #48,600 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,600
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vibrieren
Nearest frequency peer: vibrieren (-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 „vila“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- verspielen
verspielen
51,404 corpus weight
- verändernden
verändernden
51,403 corpus weight
- vibrieren
vibrieren
51,402 corpus weight
- vila
vila
51,401 corpus weight
- Vilbel
Vilbel
51,400 corpus weight
- virale
virale
51,399 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „vila“ 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 | vila |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbiɫə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „vila“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vila is neighbouring look-alikes ("vol", "VIP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbiɫə]. Frequency #48,600 among 4,163 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for vila, with forms such as "ivla", "vial", and "vlia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vol", "VIP", "vis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 vila, spelled V-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1das Dorf, die Ortschaft, der Marktflecken
- 2die (kleinere) Stadt, die Kleinstadt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivla
- vial
- vlia
- vvila
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vila - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "vila", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).