Opfer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#837
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
Opfer is aGermannoun. It means: meist rituelle Gabe an einen Gott Pronounced [ˈɔp͡fɐ]. It ranks #837 in German word frequency. Often confused with over and order.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Opfer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔp͡fɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Opfer is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔp͡fɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #837 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Opfer, with forms such as "ofper", "opefr", and "opferr". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "over", "order", "other", 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 Opfer, spelled O-P-F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meist rituelle Gabe an einen Gott
- 2etwas, das man abgibt oder spendet, so dass man selbst darauf verzichten muss
- 3jemand, der durch etwas Schaden erlitten hat
- 4die freiwillige Hergabe eines Bauern oder einer Figur in der Erwartung, dadurch einen andersartigen (eventuell größeren) Vorteil zu erreichen (Kompensation erlangen)
- 5angelehnt an [3], jemand, der schwach, dumm oder unterlegen ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ofper,opefr,opferr,opffer,opfre,oppfer,pofer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Opfer"
Frequency rank: #837 in German
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