oktal
[ɔkˈtaːl]
The verdict
“oktal” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf der Grundzahl 8 beruhend; aus den Ziffern 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 bestehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-oktal · oktal · German
oktal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oktal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɔkˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „oktal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
oktal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɔkˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf der Grundzahl 8 beruhend; aus den Ziffern 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 bestehend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oktal, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is oktal, spelled O-K-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1auf der Grundzahl 8 beruhend; aus den Ziffern 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 bestehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oktal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für Oktalzahlen ersetzt man jeweils drei Stellen der Binärzahl durch die entsprechende oktale Ziffer.
Neben der rein dezimalen Schreibweise von ganzzahligen Werten können Literalkonstanten in Java auch als oktale Zahlen (Zahlen im Achter-System) oder als hexadezimale Zahlen (Zahlen im Sechzehner-System) geschrieben werden.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.