Organ
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,915
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Organ is aGermannoun. It means: ein Glied, ein Teil in einem größeren (meist technischen oder biologischen) Zusammenhang mit einer bestimmten Gestalt und Funktion Pronounced [ɔʁˈɡaːn]. It ranks #8,915 in German word frequency. Often confused with Orten and Orgel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Organ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔʁˈɡaːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Organ is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔʁˈɡaːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,915 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 Organ, with forms such as "ogran", "oragn", and "organn". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Orten", "Orgel", "Ozean", 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 Organ, spelled O-R-G-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Glied, ein Teil in einem größeren (meist technischen oder biologischen) Zusammenhang mit einer bestimmten Gestalt und Funktion
- 2ein Körperteil, der eine spezielle Funktion hat, wie Herz, Leber, Lunge, Augen
- 3Sinn, Empfindung, Empfänglichkeit
- 4die menschliche Stimme
- 5eine in einer bestimmten Angelegenheit, mit einem bestimmten Aufgabenbereich beauftragte, bestellte Behörde, Stelle, Person, beauftragtes Gremium
- 6eine Zeitung oder Zeitschrift einer Partei, eines Vereins oder einer anderen Körperschaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ogran,oragn,organn,orggan,orgna,orrgan,rogan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Organ
Misspelling Variants of "Organ"
Frequency rank: #8,915 in German
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Nearby German words
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