Ott
[ɔt]
The verdict
“Ott” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,244) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,244
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutscher Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-ott · Ott · German
Ott · rank #16,244 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,244
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH organisatoris…
Nearest frequency peer: organisatorische (-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 „Ott“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- operieren
operieren
83,760 corpus weight
- optimiert
optimiert
83,759 corpus weight
- organisator…
organisatorische
83,758 corpus weight
- Ott
Ott
83,757 corpus weight
- Owen
Owen
83,756 corpus weight
- Papstes
Papstes
83,755 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ott“ 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 | Ott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɔt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ott“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ott is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "ov", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ɔt]. Frequency #16,244 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "deutscher Familienname".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ott in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "ov", "ox", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Ott, spelled O-T-T.
Definition
- 1deutscher Familienname
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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