Oszillator

/[ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#97,481

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Oszillator is aGermannoun. It means: Objekt, das die Fähigkeit zur (harmonischen) Schwingung aufweist, zu deren Erzeugung oder Messung dient Pronounced [ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯].

Key facts for Oszillator
PropertyValue
HeadwordOszillator
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]
Letters10
Frequency rank#97,481
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Oszillator in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Oszillator is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,481 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Objekt, das die Fähigkeit zur (harmonischen) Schwingung aufweist, zu deren Erzeugung oder Messung dient".

No misspelling variants are generated for Oszillator in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 Oszillator, spelled O-S-Z-I-L-L-A-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objekt, das die Fähigkeit zur (harmonischen) Schwingung aufweist, zu deren Erzeugung oder Messung dient

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #97,481 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Oszillator"?
"Oszillator" is spelled O-S-Z-I-L-L-A-T-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯].
What does "Oszillator" mean?
As a noun, "Oszillator" means: Objekt, das die Fähigkeit zur (harmonischen) Schwingung aufweist, zu deren Erzeugung oder Messung dient
How do you pronounce "Oszillator"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Oszillator" is [ɔst͡sɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Oszillator" come from?
"Oszillator" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.