onion
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The verdict
“onion” is uncommon German (frequency #64,579 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,579
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Zwiebel
Corpus desk
Index DE-onion · onion · German
onion · rank #64,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,579
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Operetten
Nearest frequency peer: Operetten (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “onion”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ofens
Ofens
35,424 corpus weight
- onion
onion
35,422 corpus weight
- Operetten
Operetten
35,421 corpus weight
- Opfergaben
Opfergaben
35,420 corpus weight
- orbis
orbis
35,419 corpus weight
- originelles
originelles
35,418 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “onion” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “onion” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
onion is uncommon German at frequency #64,579 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Zwiebel".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for onion, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is onion, spelled O-N-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1die Zwiebel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how onion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The onion is the bulb of the plant, which is quite attractive in bloom.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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