Wolke
[ˈvɔlkə]
The verdict
“Wolke” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,595
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - große Ansammlung von Wasserteilchen in der Troposphäre
Corpus desk
Index DE-wolke · Wolke · German
Wolke · rank #10,595 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,595
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Western
Nearest frequency peer: Western (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Wolke“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Vorrunde
Vorrunde
89,409 corpus weight
- Werft
Werft
89,408 corpus weight
- Western
Western
89,407 corpus weight
- Wolke
Wolke
89,406 corpus weight
- yes
yes
89,405 corpus weight
- zimmern
zimmern
89,404 corpus weight
What this shows „Wolke“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Wolke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɔlkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Wolke“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Wolke (IPA [ˈvɔlkə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,595 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wolke, with forms such as "owlke", "wloke", and "wokle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "work", "Worte", "wollt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Wolke, spelled W-O-L-K-E.
Definition
- 1große Ansammlung von Wasserteilchen in der Troposphäre
- 2Ansammlung vieler, gleicher Teilchen in der Luft oder in einer Flüssigkeit
- 3Gebilde aus Gas oder Staub
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wolke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Himmel ist mit Wolken bedeckt.
„In welcher Hinsicht, auf welche Weise können die Wolken und Gletscher der Hochgebirge Schicksal spielen?“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owlke
- wloke
- wokle
- wolek
- wolkke
- wollke
- wwolke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wolke - 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 "Wolke", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).