ov
[ov]
The verdict
“ov” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,862) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,862
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verfolgen von Tieren, um sie zu erlegen; Jagd
Corpus desk
Index DE-ov · ov · German
ov · rank #24,862 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,862
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH owl
Nearest frequency peer: owl (+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 „ov“
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Ortsgruppe
75,141 corpus weight
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ov
75,139 corpus weight
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owl
75,138 corpus weight
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75,137 corpus weight
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Parlamentswahl
75,136 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ov“ 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 | ov |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ov] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ov“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ov is neighbouring look-alikes ("ox", "ÖVP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ov]. Frequency #24,862 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Verfolgen von Tieren, um sie zu erlegen; Jagd".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ov, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ox", "ÖVP", "own", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ov, spelled O-V.
Definition
- 1Verfolgen von Tieren, um sie zu erlegen; Jagd
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.