Ola
[ˈɔla]
The verdict
“Ola” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,832) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,832
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - polnischer weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-ola · Ola · German
Ola · rank #44,832 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,832
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Oktoberrevolu…
Nearest frequency peer: Oktoberrevolution (-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 „Ola“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Ola“ 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 | Ola |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔla] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ola“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ola is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "OP", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈɔla]. Frequency #44,832 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "polnischer weiblicher Vorname".
Ola doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "OP", "or", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Ola, spelled O-L-A.
Definition
- 1polnischer weiblicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gdzie mieszka Ola?
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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