ox
[ɒks]
The verdict
“ox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,121) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,121
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Ochse
Corpus desk
Index DE-ox · ox · German
ox · rank #44,121 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,121
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Outing
Nearest frequency peer: Outing (-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 „ox“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Osterhasen
Osterhasen
55,884 corpus weight
- ostwärts
ostwärts
55,883 corpus weight
- Outing
Outing
55,881 corpus weight
- ox
ox
55,880 corpus weight
- paid
paid
55,879 corpus weight
- passiver
passiver
55,877 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ox“ 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 | ox |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɒks] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #44,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ox“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ox is neighbouring look-alikes ("ob", "of", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɒks]. Frequency #44,121 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Gloss: "der Ochse".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ox, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ob", "of", "oh", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ox, spelled O-X.
Definition
- 1der Ochse
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.