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The verdict
“oo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,961) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,961
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - oh
Corpus desk
Index DE-oo · oo · German
oo · rank #15,961 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,961
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH optimalen
Nearest frequency peer: optimalen (+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 „oo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Oberfranken
Oberfranken
84,045 corpus weight
- Odenwald
Odenwald
84,043 corpus weight
- oo
oo
84,040 corpus weight
- optimalen
optimalen
84,039 corpus weight
- ordnet
ordnet
84,038 corpus weight
- orthodoxen
orthodoxen
84,037 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „oo“ 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 | oo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „oo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oo is neighbouring look-alikes ("OP", "or", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced […]. Frequency #15,961 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "oh".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 oo, spelled O-O.
Definition
- 1oh
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oo, see on hirmus!
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.