Overalls
[ˈoːvəʁals]
The verdict
“Overalls” is uncommon German (frequency #84,381 among 14,908 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,381
- frequency rank, German
- 14,908
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Overall
Corpus desk
Index DE-overalls · Overalls · German
Overalls · rank #84,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,381
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 14,908
- PHOTO-FINISH ova
Nearest frequency peer: ova (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Overalls”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Omsk
Omsk
15,629 corpus weight
- ont
ont
15,628 corpus weight
- ova
ova
15,621 corpus weight
- Overalls
Overalls
15,620 corpus weight
- Paarungszeit
Paarungszeit
15,618 corpus weight
- pampers
pampers
15,615 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Overalls” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Overalls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoːvəʁals] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Overalls” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Overalls is uncommon German at frequency #84,381 among 14,908 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈoːvəʁals]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Overalls, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Overalls, spelled O-V-E-R-A-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Overall
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Overall
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Overall
- 4Dativ Plural des Substantivs Overall
- 5Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Overall
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.