Oelde
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The verdict
“Oelde” is uncommon German (frequency #66,558 among 14,908 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,558
- frequency rank, German
- 14,908
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-oelde · Oelde · German
Oelde · rank #66,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,558
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 14,908
- PHOTO-FINISH offiziellem
Nearest frequency peer: offiziellem (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Oelde”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Oberharz
Oberharz
33,447 corpus weight
- Oberhoheit
Oberhoheit
33,446 corpus weight
- Oelde
Oelde
33,443 corpus weight
- offiziellem
offiziellem
33,442 corpus weight
- Olsberg
Olsberg
33,440 corpus weight
- Opernsänger…
Opernsängerin
33,439 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Oelde” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oelde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Oelde” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Oelde is uncommon German at frequency #66,558 among 14,908 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Oelde, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Oelde, spelled O-E-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
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 "Oelde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.