Ofen
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,637
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Ofen is aGermannoun. It means: Einrichtung, Gerät zum Heizen, Verbrennen Pronounced [ˈoːfn̩]. It ranks #5,637 in German word frequency. Often confused with on and oft.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ofen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoːfn̩] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ofen is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoːfn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,637 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ofen, with forms such as "foen", "oefn", and "ofenn". 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, "on", "oft", "one", 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 Ofen, spelled O-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Einrichtung, Gerät zum Heizen, Verbrennen
- 2für ein selbst angetriebenes Straßenfahrzeug
- 3alte Bezeichnung für eine Höhle, in der Mehrzahl „Öfen“ für eine Klamm
- 4vereinzelt bis zu 20 m aufragende Felsformation aus Plattengneis, die optisch den Eindruck eines Stapels aus mehr oder weniger dicken Felsplatten erweckt
- 5alte deutsche Bezeichnung für den Budapester Stadtteil und die frühere Stadt Buda (rechte Donauseite), die 3 Städte Buda/Ofen, Obuda/Alt-Ofen, und Pest (aus dem slawischen, steht ebenfalls für Ofen i.S.v.[1]) wurden 1872 vereinigt zu Budapest
- 6mit Haschisch oder Marihuana gedrehte Zigarette
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: foen,oefn,ofenn,ofne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ofen
Misspelling Variants of "Ofen"
Frequency rank: #5,637 in German
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