Ortenberg
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The verdict
“Ortenberg” is uncommon German (frequency #71,681 among 14,908 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,681
- frequency rank, German
- 14,908
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-ortenberg · Ortenberg · German
Ortenberg · rank #71,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,681
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 14,908
- PHOTO-FINISH orangefarbene
Nearest frequency peer: orangefarbene (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ortenberg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- omnis
omnis
28,324 corpus weight
- Opferzahl
Opferzahl
28,323 corpus weight
- oraler
oraler
28,322 corpus weight
- orangefarbe…
orangefarbene
28,321 corpus weight
- Ortenberg
Ortenberg
28,320 corpus weight
- Osteopathie
Osteopathie
28,315 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ortenberg” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ortenberg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ortenberg” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ortenberg is uncommon German at frequency #71,681 among 14,908 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ortenberg, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Ortenberg, spelled O-R-T-E-N-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.