Orts
[ɔʁt͡s]
The verdict
“Orts” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,087) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,087
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ort
Corpus desk
Index DE-orts · Orts · German
Orts · rank #17,087 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,087
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH offensiv
Nearest frequency peer: offensiv (-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 „Orts“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Orts“ 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 | Orts |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Orts“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Orts is neighbouring look-alikes ("Os", "OT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɔʁt͡s]. Frequency #17,087 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ort".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Orts, with forms such as "orrts", "ortss", and "ortts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Os", "OT", "Ost", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Orts, spelled O-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ort
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orrts
- ortss
- ortts
- otrs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Orts - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).