oder
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#42
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oder is aGermanparticle. It means: Unterscheidung von mehreren Möglichkeiten Pronounced [ˈoːdɐ]. It ranks #42 in German word frequency. Often confused with or and one.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oder |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | [ˈoːdɐ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for oder is 4 letters long, classified as aparticle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoːdɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #42 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for oder, with forms such as "doer", "odder", and "oderr". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "one", "Ohr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 oder, spelled O-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unterscheidung von mehreren Möglichkeiten
- 2Unterscheidung von mehreren Möglichkeiten
- 3Unterscheidung von mehreren Möglichkeiten
- 4Konsequenz
- 5rhetorisch bestärkende Interjektion, nachgestellt; soll den Gesprächspartner meist zu Zustimmung oder Ablehnung des Gesagten bewegen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: doer,odder,oderr,odre,oedr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oder
Misspelling Variants of "oder"
Frequency rank: #42 in German
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