Octan
[ɔkˈtaːn]
The verdict
“Octan” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - klare, farblose Flüssigkeit, deren Moleküle aus 8 Kohlenstoff- und 18 Wasserstoffatomen bestehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-octan · Octan · German
Octan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Octan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔkˈtaːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Octan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Octan is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔkˈtaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Octan, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Octan, spelled O-C-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1klare, farblose Flüssigkeit, deren Moleküle aus 8 Kohlenstoff- und 18 Wasserstoffatomen bestehen
- 2Stoffgruppe von isomeren Verbindungen mit der Summenformel C₈H₁₈
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Octan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Octan ist leicht brennbar.
„Benzin ist eine Mischung verschiedener Flüssigkeiten, eine davon ist Octan.“
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.