old

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The German entry for old is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [əʊld]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,574 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lebenszeitspanne beziehend: alt".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for old in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is old, spelled O-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.