Odysseus
[oˈdʏsɔɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Odysseus” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,438
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Name eines Heroen der griechischen Mythologie
Corpus desk
Index DE-odysseus · Odysseus · German
Odysseus · rank #27,438 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Odin
Nearest frequency peer: Odin (-1 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 „Odysseus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nordpol
Nordpol
72,566 corpus weight
- Oberbefehls…
Oberbefehlshaber
72,565 corpus weight
- Odin
Odin
72,564 corpus weight
- Odysseus
Odysseus
72,563 corpus weight
- Ortsnamen
Ortsnamen
72,562 corpus weight
- Partitur
Partitur
72,561 corpus weight
What this shows „Odysseus“ 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 | Odysseus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [oˈdʏsɔɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Odysseus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Odysseus (IPA [oˈdʏsɔɪ̯s]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,438 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Name eines Heroen der griechischen Mythologie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Odysseus, with forms such as "doysseus", "oddysseus", and "odsyseus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Odyssee", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Odysseus, spelled O-D-Y-S-S-E-U-S.
Definition
- 1Name eines Heroen der griechischen Mythologie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Odysseus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Odysseus war der Sohn des Laërtes (in weniger verbreiteten Versionen des Sisyphos) und der Antikleia sowie der Bruder der Ktimene. Von seinem Vater übernahm Odysseus die Herrschaft über Ithaka.
Astronomen haben anhand einer in Homers Odyssee beschriebenen Sonnenfinsternis die Ankunft von Odysseus in Ithaka datiert: Demnach kehrte der sagenhafte König und Heerführer am 16. April 1178 vor Christus nach seiner Irrfahrt auf seine Heimatinsel zurück.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- doysseus
- oddysseus
- odsyseus
- odysesus
- odyseus
- odyssesu
- odysseuss
- odyssues
- odyysseus
- odyßeus
- oydsseus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Odysseus - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).