OPEC
[ˈoːpɛk]
The verdict
“OPEC” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,943
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - Organisation erdölexportierender Länder
Corpus desk
Index DE-opec · OPEC · German
OPEC · rank #35,943 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,943
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH oho
Nearest frequency peer: oho (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „OPEC“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Offense
Offense
64,061 corpus weight
- oHG
oHG
64,060 corpus weight
- oho
oho
64,059 corpus weight
- OPEC
OPEC
64,058 corpus weight
- Ortsverein
Ortsverein
64,057 corpus weight
- Ostfront
Ostfront
64,056 corpus weight
What this shows „OPEC“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | OPEC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈoːpɛk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „OPEC“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around OPEC (IPA [ˈoːpɛk]), anabbreviation. Corpus frequency is #35,943 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - Organisation erdölexportierender Länder".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for OPEC, with forms such as "oepc", "opce", and "opecc". 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, "ops", "opt", "Opi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is OPEC, spelled O-P-E-C.
Definition
- 1Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - Organisation erdölexportierender Länder
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OPEC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Organisation der Erdöl exportierenden Länder (OPEC) drosselte bewusst die Fördermengen um etwa fünf Prozent, um die westlichen Länder bezüglich ihrer Unterstützung Israels unter Druck zu setzen.
Dennoch tagten die OPEC-Minister praktisch unbewacht.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oepc
- opce
- opecc
- oppec
- poec
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of OPEC - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "OPEC", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).