OSO
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The verdict
“OSO” is uncommon German (frequency #69,562 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,562
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Ostsüdost
Corpus desk
Index DE-oso · OSO · German
OSO · rank #69,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,562
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH orthodoxer
Nearest frequency peer: orthodoxer (-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 „OSO“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- orthodoxer
orthodoxer
30,440 corpus weight
- OSO
OSO
30,439 corpus weight
- Ostblocks
Ostblocks
30,438 corpus weight
- Ostufer
Ostufer
30,437 corpus weight
- oui
oui
30,436 corpus weight
- Oxid
Oxid
30,434 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „OSO“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OSO |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „OSO“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
OSO is uncommon German at frequency #69,562 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Ostsüdost".
No generated misspelling entries exist for OSO in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is OSO, spelled O-S-O.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Ostsüdost
This word in other languages
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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