Österreicher
[ˈøːstəʁaɪ̯çɐ]
The verdict
“Österreicher” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,789
- frequency rank, German
- 53
- “Ö” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staatsbürger der Republik Österreich; Angehöriger des österreichischen Volkes
Corpus desk
Index DE-osterreicher · Österreicher · German
Österreicher · rank #3,789 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,789
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 53
- PHOTO-FINISH ähnlichen
Nearest frequency peer: ähnlichen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Österreicher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zentralen
Zentralen
96,214 corpus weight
- ähnlichen
ähnlichen
96,213 corpus weight
- Österreicher
Österreicher
96,212 corpus weight
- Übernahme
Übernahme
96,211 corpus weight
- anlässlich
anlässlich
96,210 corpus weight
- Annahme
Annahme
96,209 corpus weight
What this shows „Österreicher“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Österreicher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈøːstəʁaɪ̯çɐ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Österreicher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Österreicher (IPA [ˈøːstəʁaɪ̯çɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,789 among 53 “Ö” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Staatsbürger der Republik Österreich; Angehöriger des österreichischen Volkes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Österreicher, with forms such as "söterreicher", "ösetrreicher", and "össterreicher". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Österreichs", "Österreichern", "Österreicherin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Österreicher, spelled Ö-S-T-E-R-R-E-I-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Staatsbürger der Republik Österreich; Angehöriger des österreichischen Volkes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Österreicher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir trafen auf einen Österreicher, mitten in Peru!
„Der Österreicher versteht, was eine Tomate ist, kaum ein Deutscher hingegen weiß, was Paradeiser bedeutet oder dass Palatschinken nicht aus Fleisch besteht.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- söterreicher
- ösetrreicher
- össterreicher
- östereicher
- österericher
- österreciher
- österreiccher
- österreicehr
- österreicherr
- österreichher
- österreichre
- österreihcer
- österriecher
- östrereicher
- östterreicher
- ötserreicher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Österreicher - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Österreicher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).