oje
[oˈjeː]
The verdict
“oje” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,060) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,060
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausruf des Erschreckens oder der Bestürzung
Corpus desk
Index DE-oje · oje · German
oje · rank #24,060 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,060
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Nuancen
Nearest frequency peer: Nuancen (-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 „oje“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- norma
norma
75,944 corpus weight
- Nuancen
Nuancen
75,942 corpus weight
- oje
oje
75,941 corpus weight
- Oregon
Oregon
75,940 corpus weight
- organisator…
organisatorisch
75,939 corpus weight
- panisch
panisch
75,938 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „oje“ 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 | oje |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [oˈjeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „oje“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oje is neighbouring look-alikes ("ok", "on", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [oˈjeː]. Frequency #24,060 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Ausruf des Erschreckens oder der Bestürzung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oje, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ok", "on", "OP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is oje, spelled O-J-E.
Definition
- 1Ausruf des Erschreckens oder der Bestürzung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oje appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oje, die ganze Küche voller Kakerlaken.
Oje, jetzt ist er in die Grube gefallen.
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.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).