oni

pron

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The verdict

“oni” is uncommon German (frequency #96,038 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,038
frequency rank, German
1,007
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - man

Corpus desk

Index DE-oni · oni · German

oni · rank #96,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,038
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,007
  • PHOTO-FINISH olivgrün

Nearest frequency peer: olivgrün (-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 „oni“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for oni
PropertyValue
Headwordoni
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#96,038
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „oni“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „olivgrün“ (#96,037), „operational“ (#96,039), „Opernhäuser“ (#96,040). Unter 1,007 „O“-Lemmata liegt „oni“ bei #96,038. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

oni is uncommon German at frequency #96,038 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "man".

Zero misspellings are on record for oni in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is oni, spelled O-N-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    man

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ĉu oni povas bone elturniĝi kun granda aŭto en Berlino?

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 "oni"?
"oni" is spelled O-N-I.
What does "oni" mean?
As a pronoun, "oni" means: man
What language does "oni" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pez#96,065pha#96,071MBR#95,948ree#96,142

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list