Oligarchie
[oliɡaʁˈçiː]
The verdict
“Oligarchie” is uncommon German (frequency #58,137 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,137
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herrschaft einer kleinen, bestimmten Gruppe
Corpus desk
Index DE-oligarchie · Oligarchie · German
Oligarchie · rank #58,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,137
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Obstbäumen
Nearest frequency peer: Obstbäumen (-2 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 „Oligarchie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nähmaschinen
Nähmaschinen
41,869 corpus weight
- observations
observations
41,867 corpus weight
- Obstbäumen
Obstbäumen
41,866 corpus weight
- Oligarchie
Oligarchie
41,864 corpus weight
- Optimisten
Optimisten
41,862 corpus weight
- Ordinariat
Ordinariat
41,861 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Oligarchie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oligarchie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oliɡaʁˈçiː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Oligarchie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Oligarchie is uncommon German at frequency #58,137 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [oliɡaʁˈçiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Herrschaft einer kleinen, bestimmten Gruppe".
Zero misspellings are on record for Oligarchie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Oligarchie, spelled O-L-I-G-A-R-C-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Herrschaft einer kleinen, bestimmten Gruppe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Oligarchie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das alte Rom war eine Oligarchie.
„Parlamentarische Demokratien im heutigen Sinne gab es noch nicht. Wohl aber existierten parlamentarisch verfaßte Oligarchien (Großbritannien) neben relativ offenen parlamentarischen Systemen (Frankreich=, stark eingeschränkt parlamentarischen, halb-autoritären Strukturen (Deutsches Reich und Österreich-Ungarn) und beinahe unbegrenzte Autokratien (Rußland).“
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This word in other languages
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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