oi
[oj]
The verdict
“oi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,990) as a phrase. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,990
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Grußwort mit unverbindlichem Charakter
Corpus desk
Index DE-oi · oi · German
oi · rank #26,990 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,990
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH oc
Nearest frequency peer: oc (-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 „oi“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- oberflächli…
oberflächliche
73,014 corpus weight
- obige
obige
73,013 corpus weight
- oc
oc
73,012 corpus weight
- oi
oi
73,011 corpus weight
- operativ
operativ
73,010 corpus weight
- Ostukraine
Ostukraine
73,009 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „oi“ 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 | oi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [oj] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #26,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „oi“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oi is neighbouring look-alikes ("ok", "on", …), not just typos; it is aphrase pronounced [oj]. Frequency #26,990 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "ein Grußwort mit unverbindlichem Charakter".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oi, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ok", "on", "OP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is oi, spelled O-I.
Definition
- 1ein Grußwort mit unverbindlichem Charakter
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oi, Brasil! Como vai?
This word in other languages
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.