deo
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The verdict
“deo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,556) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,556
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Gott, eine Gottheit (geschlechtsneutral, allerdings ist die weibliche Wortform selten, die männliche – *deulo – gar nicht belegt)
Corpus desk
Index DE-deo · deo · German
deo · rank #17,556 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,556
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH definierte
Nearest frequency peer: definierte (-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 „deo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Davos
Davos
82,448 corpus weight
- Defekte
Defekte
82,447 corpus weight
- definierte
definierte
82,446 corpus weight
- deo
deo
82,445 corpus weight
- dessert
dessert
82,444 corpus weight
- Dino
Dino
82,443 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „deo“ 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 | deo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „deo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for deo is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "do", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #17,556 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "ein Gott, eine Gottheit (geschlechtsneutral, allerdings ist die weibliche Wortform selten, die männliche – *deulo – gar nicht belegt)".
No misspelling variants are generated for deo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "do", "dm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is deo, spelled D-E-O.
Definition
- 1ein Gott, eine Gottheit (geschlechtsneutral, allerdings ist die weibliche Wortform selten, die männliche – *deulo – gar nicht belegt)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Altra lingui anke honorizas la deo o la planeto Saturno en la nomo di ta dio, kom exemplo: […] Nederlandana zaterdag […].“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).