Joch
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,790
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Joch is aGermannoun. It means: kurz für Jochbein (Teil des Schädelknochens) Pronounced [jɔx]. Often confused with Joy and Joh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jɔx] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Joch is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [jɔx]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,790 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Joch, with forms such as "jcoh", "jjoch", and "jocch". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Joy", "Joh", "Jod", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Joch, spelled J-O-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kurz für Jochbein (Teil des Schädelknochens)
- 2altes Flächenmaß (gemessen an der Fläche, die man an einem Tag mit einem Joch Ochsen umpflügen kann)
- 3durch vier Stützen gebildete räumliche Einheit
- 4Bereich zwischen zwei Brückenpfeilern
- 5Senke im Gebirgsprofil, die einen Gipfel vom nächsten oder zwei Bergstöcke voneinander trennt
- 6schweres Geschirr-Teil, das man Ochsen, Kühen und anderen Zugtieren auflegt, und mit dem sie die Last ziehen
- 7schwere Arbeit, Last, Knechtschaft
- 8Tragegestell für Eimer
- 9Tragbalken (zum Beispiel für Glocken)
- 10ein Paar Zugtiere, unter einem Joch eingespannt; Zählmaß für die verfügbaren Zugtiere
- 11Pfeiler einer Jochbrücke
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jcoh,jjoch,jocch,jochh,johc,ojch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Joch
Misspelling Variants of "Joch"
Frequency rank: #24,790 in German
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