Ostrau
[ˈɔstʁaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Ostrau” is uncommon German (frequency #96,046 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,046
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutsche Bezeichnung der Stadt Ostrava in Tschechien
Corpus desk
Index DE-ostrau · Ostrau · German
Ostrau · rank #96,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,046
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Outtakes
Nearest frequency peer: Outtakes (+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 “Ostrau”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ordensschwe…
Ordensschwestern
3,960 corpus weight
- Ortsverbände
Ortsverbände
3,957 corpus weight
- Ostrau
Ostrau
3,955 corpus weight
- Outtakes
Outtakes
3,954 corpus weight
- oxidiert
oxidiert
3,953 corpus weight
- Palatin
Palatin
3,951 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ostrau” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ostrau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔstʁaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Ostrau” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Ostrau is uncommon German at frequency #96,046 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈɔstʁaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deutsche Bezeichnung der Stadt Ostrava in Tschechien".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ostrau in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ostrau, spelled O-S-T-R-A-U.
Definition
- 1deutsche Bezeichnung der Stadt Ostrava in Tschechien
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ostrau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ostrau ist die drittgrößte Stadt Tschechiens.
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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