on
The verdict
“on” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #975) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #975
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - online
Corpus desk
Index DE-on · on · German
on · rank #975 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #975
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH niemals
Nearest frequency peer: niemals (-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 „on“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kunden
Kunden
99,029 corpus weight
- niemals
niemals
99,027 corpus weight
- on
on
99,026 corpus weight
- Schau
Schau
99,025 corpus weight
- Schritt
Schritt
99,024 corpus weight
- Staaten
Staaten
99,023 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „on“ 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 | on |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „on“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for on is neighbouring look-alikes ("OP", "or", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #975 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "online".
No misspelling variants are generated for on in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "OP", "or", "Os", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is on, spelled O-N.
Definition
- 1online
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how on appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich hoffe, du bist morgen auch on.
Antonyms
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.