Ölmühle

[ˈøːlˌmyːlə]

/[ˈøːlˌmyːlə]/ noun

The verdict

“Ölmühle” is uncommon German (frequency #81,217 among 53 “Ö” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,217
frequency rank, German
53
“Ö” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Anlage, Maschine zur Gewinnung von Öl aus Pflanzenteilen wie Rapssamen, Leinsamen, Palmfrüchten, Sonnenblumenkernen, Oliven, Sojabohnen, Färberdistelsamen, Walnüssen, Haselnüssen oder Kürbiske...

Corpus desk

Index DE-olmuhle · Ölmühle · German

Ölmühle · rank #81,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,217
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 53
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ölkrise

Nearest frequency peer: Ölkrise (-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 „Ölmühle“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ölmühle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Ölmühle
PropertyValue
HeadwordÖlmühle
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈøːlˌmyːlə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,217
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Ölmühle“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Ölmühlefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Ölkrise“ (#81,216), „zähes“ (#81,215), „überragendes“ (#81,220). Unter 53 „Ö“-Lemmata liegt „Ölmühle“ bei #81,217. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Ölmühle is uncommon German at frequency #81,217 among 53 “Ö” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈøːlˌmyːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Anlage, Maschine zur Gewinnung von Öl aus Pflanzenteilen wie Rapssamen, Leinsamen, Palmfrüchten, Sonnenblumenkernen, Oliven, Sojabohnen, Färberdistelsamen, Walnüssen, Haselnüssen oder Kürbiske...".

Zero misspellings are on record for Ölmühle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ölmühle, spelled Ö-L-M-Ü-H-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Anlage, Maschine zur Gewinnung von Öl aus Pflanzenteilen wie Rapssamen, Leinsamen, Palmfrüchten, Sonnenblumenkernen, Oliven, Sojabohnen, Färberdistelsamen, Walnüssen, Haselnüssen oder Kürbiskernen

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Ölmühle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Bei der Hamburger Ölmühle nisten Wanderfalken.
  2. „Neben Getreidemühlen sind mehrere Ölmühlen erkennbar.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ölmühle"?
"Ölmühle" is spelled Ö-L-M-Ü-H-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈøːlˌmyːlə].
What does "Ölmühle" mean?
As a noun, "Ölmühle" means: eine Anlage, Maschine zur Gewinnung von Öl aus Pflanzenteilen wie Rapssamen, Leinsamen, Palmfrüchten, Sonnenblumenkernen, Oliven, Sojabohnen, Färberdistelsamen, Walnüssen, Haselnüssen oder Kürbiske...
How do you pronounce "Ölmühle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ölmühle" is [ˈøːlˌmyːlə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ölmühle", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list