oss
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The verdict
“oss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,375) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,375
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Knochen
Corpus desk
Index DE-oss · oss · German
oss · rank #41,375 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,375
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Orgasmen
Nearest frequency peer: Orgasmen (-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 „oss“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Omaha
Omaha
58,630 corpus weight
- Orgasmen
Orgasmen
58,627 corpus weight
- oss
oss
58,626 corpus weight
- Ostalb
Ostalb
58,625 corpus weight
- Ostbahnhof
Ostbahnhof
58,624 corpus weight
- Osteuropas
Osteuropas
58,623 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „oss“ 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 | oss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „oss“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oss is neighbouring look-alikes ("OT", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #41,375 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "der Knochen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oss in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "OT", "ou", "ov", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is oss, spelled O-S-S.
Definition
- 1der Knochen
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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