Odenwald
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The verdict
“Odenwald” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,958
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mittelgebirge im Grenzgebiet im Süden Hessens, im Norden Baden-Württembergs und im Nordwesten Bayerns
Corpus desk
Index DE-odenwald · Odenwald · German
Odenwald · rank #15,958 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,958
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Oberfranken
Nearest frequency peer: Oberfranken (-2 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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Odenwald“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- navi
navi
84,048 corpus weight
- negatives
negatives
84,047 corpus weight
- Oberfranken
Oberfranken
84,045 corpus weight
- Odenwald
Odenwald
84,043 corpus weight
- oo
oo
84,040 corpus weight
- optimalen
optimalen
84,039 corpus weight
What this shows „Odenwald“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Odenwald |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Odenwald“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Odenwald (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,958 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Odenwald, with forms such as "doenwald", "oddenwald", and "odenawld". 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, "of", "TO", "video", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Odenwald, spelled O-D-E-N-W-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1Mittelgebirge im Grenzgebiet im Süden Hessens, im Norden Baden-Württembergs und im Nordwesten Bayerns
- 2Landschaftsschutzgebiet im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Odenwald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein 43-jähriger Mann aus dem Odenwald steht im Verdacht, über Jahre hinweg mit Schusswaffen und Drogen gehandelt zu haben.“
„Den Odenwald hat die Eintracht zwar geografisch gesehen schon angesteuert, erstmals geht’s nun aber in den gleichnamigen Landkreis.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- doenwald
- oddenwald
- odenawld
- odennwald
- odenwadl
- odenwaldd
- odenwalld
- odenwlad
- odenwwald
- odewnald
- odnewald
- oednwald
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Odenwald - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Odenwald", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).