owl
[aʊl]
The verdict
“owl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,863) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,863
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eule
Corpus desk
Index DE-owl · owl · German
owl · rank #24,863 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,863
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH ov
Nearest frequency peer: ov (-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 „owl“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ortsgruppe
Ortsgruppe
75,141 corpus weight
- ov
ov
75,139 corpus weight
- owl
owl
75,138 corpus weight
- Palermo
Palermo
75,137 corpus weight
- Parlamentsw…
Parlamentswahl
75,136 corpus weight
- Parlamentsw…
Parlamentswahlen
75,135 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „owl“ 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 | owl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʊl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „owl“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for owl is neighbouring look-alikes ("ox", "own", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [aʊl]. Frequency #24,863 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Eule".
No generated misspelling entries exist for owl in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ox", "own", "ob", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is owl, spelled O-W-L.
Definition
- 1Eule
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).