Ödipus
[ˈøːdipʊs]
The verdict
“Ödipus” is uncommon German (frequency #55,068 among 533 “Ö” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,068
- frequency rank, German
- 533
- “Ö” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in der griechischen Sage König von Theben, der unwissentlich seinen Vater tötet und seine Mutter heiratet; Sohn des thebanischen Königs Laios und der Iokaste
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ödipus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈøːdipʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ödipus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ödipus is uncommon German at frequency #55,068 among 533 “Ö” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈøːdipʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der griechischen Sage König von Theben, der unwissentlich seinen Vater tötet und seine Mutter heiratet; Sohn des thebanischen Königs Laios und der Iokaste".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ödipus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ödipus, spelled Ö-D-I-P-U-S.
Definition
- 1in der griechischen Sage König von Theben, der unwissentlich seinen Vater tötet und seine Mutter heiratet; Sohn des thebanischen Königs Laios und der Iokaste
This word in other languages
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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Using “Ödipus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Ö-D-I-P-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.