vol
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The verdict
“vol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,374) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,374
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flug, des Tieres und der Maschine
Corpus desk
Index DE-vol · vol · German
vol · rank #6,374 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,374
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH victor
Nearest frequency peer: victor (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vol”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Verfassungs…
Verfassungsschutz
93,630 corpus weight
- Verwandte
Verwandte
93,629 corpus weight
- victor
victor
93,628 corpus weight
- vol
vol
93,627 corpus weight
- Vorjahr
Vorjahr
93,626 corpus weight
- Welten
Welten
93,625 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vol” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | vol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “vol” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vol is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "VR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #6,374 among 4,163 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for vol in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "VR", "VP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is vol, spelled V-O-L.
Definition
- 1Flug, des Tieres und der Maschine
- 2Diebstahl
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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- "vol" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "VW". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #6,374 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.