OGH
[oːɡeːˈhaː]
The verdict
“OGH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,937) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,937
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Oberster Gerichtshof (ist in Österreich die höchste richterliche Instanz in Zivil- und Strafsachen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-ogh · OGH · German
OGH · rank #49,937 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,937
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH observation
Nearest frequency peer: observation (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „OGH“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „OGH“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | OGH |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [oːɡeːˈhaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „OGH“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OGH is neighbouring look-alikes ("oh", "ok", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [oːɡeːˈhaː]. Frequency #49,937 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Oberster Gerichtshof (ist in Österreich die höchste richterliche Instanz in Zivil- und Strafsachen)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for OGH in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oh", "ok", "on", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is OGH, spelled O-G-H.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Oberster Gerichtshof (ist in Österreich die höchste richterliche Instanz in Zivil- und Strafsachen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OGH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Oberste Gerichtshof (OGH) hat die gegen die Bankomat-Betreiberin ‚Europay Austria‘ – heute ‚PayLife‘ – eine in erster Instanz verhängte Geldbuße von fünf auf sieben Mio. Euro erhöht.“
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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