OLG
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The verdict
“OLG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,556) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,556
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Oberlandesgericht
Corpus desk
Index DE-olg · OLG · German
OLG · rank #12,556 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,556
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Oberpfalz
Nearest frequency peer: Oberpfalz (-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 „OLG“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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87,448 corpus weight
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oberflächlich
87,447 corpus weight
- Oberpfalz
Oberpfalz
87,446 corpus weight
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OLG
87,445 corpus weight
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87,444 corpus weight
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87,443 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „OLG“ 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 | OLG |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „OLG“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OLG is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "OP", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #12,556 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Oberlandesgericht".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for OLG, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is OLG, spelled O-L-G.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Oberlandesgericht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OLG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das OLG Karlsruhe gibt morgen das Urteil bekannt.
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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