owner

[ˈəʊnəʳ]

/[ˈəʊnəʳ]/ noun

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The verdict

“owner” is uncommon German (frequency #50,770 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,770
frequency rank, German
1,007
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Besitzer, Eigentümer

Corpus desk

Index DE-owner · owner · German

owner · rank #50,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,770
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,007
  • PHOTO-FINISH oy

Nearest frequency peer: oy (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „owner“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „owner“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for owner
PropertyValue
Headwordowner
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈəʊnəʳ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#50,770
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „owner“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).ownerfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „oy“ (#50,771), „organisatorischer“ (#50,768), „operierten“ (#50,767). Unter 1,007 „O“-Lemmata liegt „owner“ bei #50,770. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

owner is uncommon German at frequency #50,770 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈəʊnəʳ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Besitzer, Eigentümer".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for owner, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 owner, spelled O-W-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Besitzer, Eigentümer

This word in other languages

propriétaire(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "owner"?
"owner" is spelled O-W-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈəʊnəʳ].
What does "owner" mean?
As a noun, "owner" means: Besitzer, Eigentümer
How do you pronounce "owner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "owner" is [ˈəʊnəʳ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "owner" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "owner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Parke#50,775pfarr#50,784Polis#50,794müder#50,740

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list