our
[aʊə]
The verdict
“our” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,607) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,607
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unser
Corpus desk
Index DE-our · our · German
our · rank #8,607 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,607
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH ordentliche
Nearest frequency peer: ordentliche (-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 „our“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- nüchtern
nüchtern
91,397 corpus weight
- optisch
optisch
91,396 corpus weight
- ordentliche
ordentliche
91,395 corpus weight
- our
our
91,394 corpus weight
- Periode
Periode
91,393 corpus weight
- pm
pm
91,392 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „our“ 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 | our |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [aʊə] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „our“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for our is neighbouring look-alikes ("ov", "ox", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [aʊə]. Frequency #8,607 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "unser".
No misspelling variants are generated for our in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ov", "ox", "Out", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is our, spelled O-U-R.
Definition
- 1unser
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how our appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That is our house.
This word in other languages
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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