orly
[ˈɔrli]
The verdict
“orly” is uncommon German (frequency #97,477 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,477
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs orol
Corpus desk
Index DE-orly · orly · German
orly · rank #97,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,477
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH orbital
Nearest frequency peer: orbital (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „orly“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- oldenburgis…
oldenburgischen
2,528 corpus weight
- OPCW
OPCW
2,527 corpus weight
- orbital
orbital
2,525 corpus weight
- orly
orly
2,524 corpus weight
- Oscarverlei…
Oscarverleihung
2,523 corpus weight
- ostasiatisc…
ostasiatische
2,522 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „orly“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orly |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔrli] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „orly“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
orly is uncommon German at frequency #97,477 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɔrli]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for orly, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct German form is orly, spelled O-R-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs orol
- 2Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs orol
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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