Ober
[ˈoːbɐ]
The verdict
“Ober” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,747
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - ursprünglich Chefkellner, auch höfliche Anrede für einen einfachen Kellner
Corpus desk
Index DE-ober · Ober · German
Ober · rank #5,747 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,747
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH nimmst
Nearest frequency peer: nimmst (-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 “Ober”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Nachwuchs
Nachwuchs
94,257 corpus weight
- nick
nick
94,256 corpus weight
- nimmst
nimmst
94,255 corpus weight
- Ober
Ober
94,254 corpus weight
- oberhalb
oberhalb
94,253 corpus weight
- Partien
Partien
94,252 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ober” 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 | Ober |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoːbɐ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ober” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Ober (IPA [ˈoːbɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,747 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ober, with forms such as "boer", "obber", and "oberr". 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, "or", "one", "Ohr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Ober, spelled O-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1ursprünglich Chefkellner, auch höfliche Anrede für einen einfachen Kellner
- 2Bildkarte im deutschen Kartenspiel zwischen Unter und König
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ober appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Herr Ober, bitte die Rechnung!
„Jetzt gingen wir beide schnell in ein italienisches Lokal, dessen Ober mich betrog.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boer
- obber
- oberr
- obre
- oebr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ober - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ober", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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.