Oligarch
[oliˈɡaʁç]
The verdict
“Oligarch” is an uncommon German word, ranked #84,371 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,371
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Angehöriger einer kleinen Gruppe, die politische Macht über ein Land oder eine Region hat
| 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) |
Where “Oligarch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Oligarch is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oliˈɡaʁç]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,371 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Oligarch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-L-I-G-A-R-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oliˈɡaʁç] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.