Obst
[oːpst]
The verdict
“Obst” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #4,545 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,545
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - roh essbare, meist saftige Früchte, die von Bäumen, Sträuchern und mehrjährigen Stauden stammen, mit überwiegend süßlichem oder säuerlichem, „fruchtigem“ Geschmack
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 | Obst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oːpst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Obst” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Obst is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oːpst]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,545 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "roh essbare, meist saftige Früchte, die von Bäumen, Sträuchern und mehrjährigen Stauden stammen, mit überwiegend süßlichem oder säuerlichem, „fruchtigem“ Geschmack".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Obst, with forms such as "bost", "obbst", and "obsst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Os", "OT", "oft", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Obst, spelled O-B-S-T.
Definition
- 1roh essbare, meist saftige Früchte, die von Bäumen, Sträuchern und mehrjährigen Stauden stammen, mit überwiegend süßlichem oder säuerlichem, „fruchtigem“ Geschmack
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bost,obbst,obsst,obstt,obts,osbt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Obst - 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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Using “Obst”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-B-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oːpst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Os” - see the side-by-side comparison. Obst vs Os
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.