odkaz
The verdict
“odkaz” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Zuwendung eines bestimmten Vermögensvorteils aufgrund eines Testaments oder Erbvertrags, ohne dass der Vermächtnisnehmer als Erbe eingesetzt wird; Vermächtnis, Legat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odkaz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔtkas] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “odkaz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for odkaz is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔtkas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for odkaz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 odkaz, spelled O-D-K-A-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zuwendung eines bestimmten Vermögensvorteils aufgrund eines Testaments oder Erbvertrags, ohne dass der Vermächtnisnehmer als Erbe eingesetzt wird; Vermächtnis, Legat
- 2Vermögen, das jemand bei seinem Tod hinterlassen hat; Nachlass, Erbe
- 3etwas, das jemanden auf etwas aufmerksam macht; Hinweis, Verweis
- 4eine gekennzeichnete Zeichenfolge, die bei Aktivierung durch Anklicken zu einem entsprechenden Ziel weiterleitet; Link
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Using “odkaz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-D-K-A-Z — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɔtkas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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