order
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,761
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
order is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ordern Pronounced [ˈɔʁdɐ]. It ranks #8,761 in German word frequency. Often confused with Orte and over.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | order |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɔʁdɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for order is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔʁdɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,761 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for order, with forms such as "odrer", "ordder", and "orderr". 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, "Orte", "over", "Orten", 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 order, spelled O-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ordern
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ordern
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: odrer,ordder,orderr,oredr,orrder,roder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for order
Misspelling Variants of "order"
Frequency rank: #8,761 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our German index: