Ökologie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,539
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Ökologie is aGermannoun. It means: Teilgebiet der Biologie, welches sich mit den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Organismen und ihrer natürlichen Umwelt beschäftigt Pronounced [ˌøkoloˈɡiː]. Often confused with Ökonomie and Onkologie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ökologie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌøkoloˈɡiː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ökologie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌøkoloˈɡiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,539 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Teilgebiet der Biologie, welches sich mit den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Organismen und ihrer natürlichen Umwelt beschäftigt".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ökologie, with forms such as "köologie", "ökkologie", and "ökloogie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Ökonomie", "Onkologie", 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 Ökologie, spelled Ö-K-O-L-O-G-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Teilgebiet der Biologie, welches sich mit den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Organismen und ihrer natürlichen Umwelt beschäftigt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: köologie,ökkologie,ökloogie,ökolgoie,ökollogie,ökologei,ökologgie,ökoloige,ökoolgie,öoklogie
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Misspelling Variants of "Ökologie"
Frequency rank: #15,539 in German
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