obwohl

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for obwohl is 6 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔpˈvoːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #572 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "leitet einen Nebensatz (Konzessivsatz) ein, der einen Gegengrund zu der Hauptaussage nennt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for obwohl, with forms such as "bowohl", "obbwohl", and "obowhl". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 obwohl, spelled O-B-W-O-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.