Oligarch
[oliˈɡaʁç]
The verdict
“Oligarch” is uncommon German (frequency #84,371 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,371
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angehöriger einer kleinen Gruppe, die politische Macht über ein Land oder eine Region hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-oligarch · Oligarch · German
Oligarch · rank #84,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH older
Nearest frequency peer: older (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Oligarch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- octopus
octopus
15,634 corpus weight
- Olav
Olav
15,632 corpus weight
- older
older
15,631 corpus weight
- Oligarch
Oligarch
15,630 corpus weight
- Omsk
Omsk
15,629 corpus weight
- ont
ont
15,628 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Oligarch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oligarch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oliˈɡaʁç] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Oligarch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Oligarch is uncommon German at frequency #84,371 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [oliˈɡaʁç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Angehöriger einer kleinen Gruppe, die politische Macht über ein Land oder eine Region hat".
Zero misspellings are on record for Oligarch in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 Oligarch, spelled O-L-I-G-A-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1Angehöriger einer kleinen Gruppe, die politische Macht über ein Land oder eine Region hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Oligarch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die russischen Oligarchen sind zumeist in der Gorbatschow-Ära reich geworden.
„Präsident Poroschenko hat schon in früheren Regierungen hohe Posten eingenommen, als Oligarch trieb er im Kartell mit anderen einst die Zuckerpreise hoch.“
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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