ostwärts
[ˈɔstvɛʁt͡s]
The verdict
“ostwärts” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #44,118 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #44,118
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — in östliche Richtung, nach Osten hin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostwärts |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈɔstvɛʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ostwärts” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ostwärts is 8 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔstvɛʁt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,118 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in östliche Richtung, nach Osten hin".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ostwärts, with forms such as "osstwärts", "osttwärts", and "ostwräts". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ostwärts, spelled O-S-T-W-Ä-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in östliche Richtung, nach Osten hin
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osstwärts,osttwärts,ostwräts,ostwwärts,ostwärrts,ostwärst,ostwärtss,ostwärtts,ostwätrs,ostäwrts,oswtärts,otswärts,sotwärts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ostwärts - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "ostwärts"
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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Using “ostwärts”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-S-T-W-Ä-R-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɔstvɛʁt͡s] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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