Öl
[øːl]
The verdict
“Öl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,940) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,940
- frequency rank, German
- 53
- “Ö” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fettige, schmierige Flüssigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-ol · Öl · German
Öl · rank #2,940 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,940
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 53
- PHOTO-FINISH zunehmend
Nearest frequency peer: zunehmend (-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 „Öl“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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97,063 corpus weight
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97,062 corpus weight
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97,061 corpus weight
- anbieten
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97,060 corpus weight
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97,059 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Öl“ 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 | Öl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [øːl] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Öl“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Öl is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "OP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [øːl]. Frequency #2,940 among 53 “Ö” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Öl, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "OP", "or", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Öl, spelled Ö-L.
Definition
- 1fettige, schmierige Flüssigkeit
- 2fettige, schmierige Flüssigkeit
- 3fettige, schmierige Flüssigkeit
- 4Ölfarben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Öl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An den Salat sollte noch etwas Öl getan werden.
„Das Öl kam vom Müller, der damit die Bucheckern bezahlte, die alle im Wald suchen gingen.“
Synonyms
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.