Ouija
[ˈwiːd͡ʒi]
The verdict
“Ouija” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Buchstaben, Zahlen und/oder kurzen Wörtern/Phrasen versehene Tafel, die vorgeblich dazu dient, mit Geistern zu kommunizieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-ouija · Ouija · German
Ouija · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Ouija |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwiːd͡ʒi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ouija“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ouija is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwiːd͡ʒi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit Buchstaben, Zahlen und/oder kurzen Wörtern/Phrasen versehene Tafel, die vorgeblich dazu dient, mit Geistern zu kommunizieren".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ouija, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Ouija, spelled O-U-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1mit Buchstaben, Zahlen und/oder kurzen Wörtern/Phrasen versehene Tafel, die vorgeblich dazu dient, mit Geistern zu kommunizieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ouija appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die beiden hatten neben ihrer Liebe und ihren literarischen Interessen auch ein Faible für das Okkulte, für spiritistische Séancen, vor allem für das Spiel mit dem Ouija-Brett, bei dem ausgeschnittene Buchstaben und ein Weinglas eine Rolle spielen.“
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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.