oud
[ud]
The verdict
“oud” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ud, Oud
Corpus desk
Index DE-oud · oud · German
oud · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oud |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ud] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „oud“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
oud is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ud]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ud, Oud".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oud, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 oud, spelled O-U-D.
Definition
- 1Ud, Oud
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.