okt
The verdict
“okt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,446) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,446
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für den Monat oktober; Oktober
Corpus desk
Index DE-okt · okt · German
okt · rank #15,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,446
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH officer
Nearest frequency peer: officer (-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 „okt“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Nordwesten
Nordwesten
84,558 corpus weight
- Obdachlosen
Obdachlosen
84,557 corpus weight
- officer
officer
84,556 corpus weight
- okt
okt
84,555 corpus weight
- optional
optional
84,554 corpus weight
- Palais
Palais
84,553 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „okt“ 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 | okt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „okt“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for okt is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "OP", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #15,446 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für den Monat oktober; Oktober".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for okt, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "OP", "Öl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is okt, spelled O-K-T.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für den Monat oktober; Oktober
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how okt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Semesterplan: okt och halva nov
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "okt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).