ORF
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The verdict
“ORF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,920) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,920
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung von „Österreichischer RundFunk“
Corpus desk
Index DE-orf · ORF · German
ORF · rank #4,920 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,920
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH notwendige
Nearest frequency peer: notwendige (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „ORF“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Neustadt
Neustadt
95,084 corpus weight
- niedriger
niedriger
95,083 corpus weight
- notwendige
notwendige
95,082 corpus weight
- ORF
ORF
95,081 corpus weight
- Porsche
Porsche
95,079 corpus weight
- preisen
preisen
95,078 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ORF“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | ORF |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ORF“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ORF is neighbouring look-alikes ("Os", "OT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #4,920 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung von „Österreichischer RundFunk“".
Zero misspellings are on record for ORF in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Os", "OT", "ou", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 ORF, spelled O-R-F.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung von „Österreichischer RundFunk“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ORF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei gut 3000 Vollzeitjobs im ORF selbst und fast 4000 Vollzeitstellen im ORF-Konzern samt Tochterunternehmen klingt das recht überschaubar.“
„Ohne Ankündigung stellte der ORF am Dienstag ein lang geplantes Projekt online: Sendungen von Ö1, Ö3, FM4 und den neun ORF-Regionalradios findet man nun auf einem Portal.“
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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