OPCW
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The verdict
“OPCW” is uncommon German (frequency #97,474 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,474
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation für das Verbot chemischer Waffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-opcw · OPCW · German
OPCW · rank #97,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,474
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH oldenburgisch…
Nearest frequency peer: oldenburgischen (-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 „OPCW“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Offtopic
Offtopic
2,531 corpus weight
- Okular
Okular
2,529 corpus weight
- oldenburgis…
oldenburgischen
2,528 corpus weight
- OPCW
OPCW
2,527 corpus weight
- orbital
orbital
2,525 corpus weight
- orly
orly
2,524 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „OPCW“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OPCW |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „OPCW“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
OPCW is uncommon German at frequency #97,474 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisation für das Verbot chemischer Waffen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for OPCW, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is OPCW, spelled O-P-C-W.
Definition
- 1Organisation für das Verbot chemischer Waffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OPCW appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beim Verdacht auf den Einsatz von Chemiewaffen in Konfliktfällen schickt die OPCW Ermittler in das betreffende Land.“
Synonyms
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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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