Ökonom
[økoˈnoːm]
The verdict
“Ökonom” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,473
- frequency rank, German
- 533
- “Ö” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fachmann der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Corpus desk
Index DE-okonom · Ökonom · German
Ökonom · rank #19,473 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,473
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 533
- PHOTO-FINISH ästhetischen
Nearest frequency peer: ästhetischen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ökonom”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- zweifelt
zweifelt
80,531 corpus weight
- zynisch
zynisch
80,530 corpus weight
- ästhetischen
ästhetischen
80,529 corpus weight
- Ökonom
Ökonom
80,528 corpus weight
- Abfälle
Abfälle
80,526 corpus weight
- abgerechnet
abgerechnet
80,525 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ökonom” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ökonom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [økoˈnoːm] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ökonom” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ökonom (IPA [økoˈnoːm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,473 among 533 “Ö” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ökonom, with forms such as "köonom", "ökkonom", and "öknoom". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Ökonomie", "Ökonomen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Ökonom, spelled Ö-K-O-N-O-M.
Definition
- 1Fachmann der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
- 2Besitzer eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebs, Verwalter
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- köonom
- ökkonom
- öknoom
- ökonmo
- ökonnom
- ökonomm
- ökoonm
- öoknom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ökonom - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ökonom", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.