Oper
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,455
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Oper is aGermannoun. It means: Gattungsbezeichnung für dramatische Bühnenwerke, deren Handlung durch Gesang und Instrumentalmusik dargestellt wird Pronounced [ˈoːpɐ]. It ranks #4,455 in German word frequency. Often confused with or and our.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oper |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoːpɐ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Oper is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoːpɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,455 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Oper, with forms such as "oepr", "operr", and "opper". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "our", "ops", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Oper, spelled O-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gattungsbezeichnung für dramatische Bühnenwerke, deren Handlung durch Gesang und Instrumentalmusik dargestellt wird
- 2Bezeichnung für ein einzelnes Werk der Gattung ^([1])
- 3kurz für Opernhaus
- 4Unternehmen, das Opern organisiert
- 5Ensemble eines Opernhauses
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oepr,operr,opper,opre,poer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Oper
Misspelling Variants of "Oper"
Frequency rank: #4,455 in German
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