OCR
The verdict
“OCR” is uncommon German (frequency #74,928 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,928
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - optical character recognition
Corpus desk
Index DE-ocr · OCR · German
OCR · rank #74,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,928
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH nächtigen
Nearest frequency peer: nächtigen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „OCR“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nudelsalat
Nudelsalat
25,076 corpus weight
- nunmehrigen
nunmehrigen
25,075 corpus weight
- nächtigen
nächtigen
25,074 corpus weight
- OCR
OCR
25,073 corpus weight
- options
options
25,070 corpus weight
- Ortsgemeind…
Ortsgemeinden
25,069 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „OCR“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OCR |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „OCR“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
OCR is uncommon German at frequency #74,928 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
OCR has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is OCR, spelled O-C-R.
Definition
- 1optical character recognition
- 2optical character reader
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OCR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Large digital libraries would be impractical to create without OCR.
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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