ones
[wʌnz]
The verdict
“ones” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,394) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,394
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs one
Corpus desk
Index DE-ones · ones · German
ones · rank #43,394 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,394
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Ortsausgang
Nearest frequency peer: Ortsausgang (+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 „ones“
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56,610 corpus weight
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56,609 corpus weight
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56,607 corpus weight
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56,606 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „ones“ 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 | ones |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [wʌnz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ones“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ones is neighbouring look-alikes ("Os", "ops", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [wʌnz]. Frequency #43,394 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs one".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ones, with forms such as "oens", "oness", and "onnes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Os", "ops", "ons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is ones, spelled O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs one
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oens
- oness
- onnes
- onse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ones - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).