och
[ɔx]
The verdict
“och” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,114) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,114
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausdruck des Bedauerns, der Überraschung, der Freude oder anderer Gemütsbewegungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-och · och · German
och · rank #8,114 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,114
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Nordkorea
Nearest frequency peer: Nordkorea (-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 „och“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- nachzudenken
nachzudenken
91,890 corpus weight
- Neuseeland
Neuseeland
91,889 corpus weight
- Nordkorea
Nordkorea
91,888 corpus weight
- och
och
91,887 corpus weight
- Olaf
Olaf
91,886 corpus weight
- organisiert…
organisierten
91,885 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „och“ 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 | och |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ɔx] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „och“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for och is neighbouring look-alikes ("of", "oh", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ɔx]. Frequency #8,114 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Ausdruck des Bedauerns, der Überraschung, der Freude oder anderer Gemütsbewegungen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for och, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "oh", "ok", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is och, spelled O-C-H.
Definition
- 1Ausdruck des Bedauerns, der Überraschung, der Freude oder anderer Gemütsbewegungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how och appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Och, du armer Kleiner, kein Mensch kümmert sich hier um dich!
Och, das gibt es doch nicht, jetzt haben wir das Spiel tatsächlich noch verloren.
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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