oftmals
The verdict
“oftmals” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #3,676 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #3,676
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: relativ häufig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oftmals |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈɔftmaːls] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oftmals” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for oftmals is 7 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔftmaːls]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,676 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativ häufig".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for oftmals, with forms such as "fotmals", "offtmals", and "ofmtals". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 oftmals, spelled O-F-T-M-A-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativ häufig
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fotmals,offtmals,ofmtals,oftamls,oftmalls,oftmalss,oftmasl,oftmlas,oftmmals,ofttmals,otfmals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oftmals — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "oftmals"
Frequency rank: #3,676 in German
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Using “oftmals”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-F-T-M-A-L-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɔftmaːls] (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
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our German index: