omg
[ˌoːəmˈɡeː]
The verdict
“omg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,240) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,240
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - „Oh mein Gott!“
Corpus desk
Index DE-omg · omg · German
omg · rank #16,240 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,240
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Obhut
Nearest frequency peer: Obhut (-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 „omg“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Notaufnahme
Notaufnahme
83,764 corpus weight
- Obhut
Obhut
83,762 corpus weight
- omg
omg
83,761 corpus weight
- operieren
operieren
83,760 corpus weight
- optimiert
optimiert
83,759 corpus weight
- organisator…
organisatorische
83,758 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „omg“ 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 | omg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌoːəmˈɡeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „omg“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for omg is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "OP", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌoːəmˈɡeː]. Frequency #16,240 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "„Oh mein Gott!“".
No generated misspelling entries exist for omg in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "OP", "or", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is omg, spelled O-M-G.
Definition
- 1„Oh mein Gott!“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how omg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„omg, das hätte ich nie von ihr/ihm gedacht!“
„omg, immer das gleiche mit diesen Computern.“
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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