Ortenau
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The verdict
“Ortenau” is uncommon German (frequency #53,135 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,135
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Landschaft am rechten Oberrhein in Baden-Württemberg zwischen Breisgau im Süden und Schwarzwald im Osten
Corpus desk
Index DE-ortenau · Ortenau · German
Ortenau · rank #53,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,135
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH orientalischer
Nearest frequency peer: orientalischer (-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 „Ortenau“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Operatoren
Operatoren
46,869 corpus weight
- optimales
optimales
46,868 corpus weight
- orientalisc…
orientalischer
46,867 corpus weight
- Ortenau
Ortenau
46,866 corpus weight
- Ostindien
Ostindien
46,864 corpus weight
- Ovid
Ovid
46,863 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ortenau“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ortenau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ortenau“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ortenau is uncommon German at frequency #53,135 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Landschaft am rechten Oberrhein in Baden-Württemberg zwischen Breisgau im Süden und Schwarzwald im Osten".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ortenau, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Ortenau, spelled O-R-T-E-N-A-U.
Definition
- 1Landschaft am rechten Oberrhein in Baden-Württemberg zwischen Breisgau im Süden und Schwarzwald im Osten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ortenau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mitmachen können alle Fotobegeisterten, egal ob Hobbyfotograf oder Profi, aus der Ortenau oder von auswärts.“
„Die Ortenau ist nicht nur ein schöner Landstrich – sie lebt durch die Menschen, die hier verwurzelt sind.“
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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