zo
[zo]
The verdict
“zo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,656) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,656
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teil des Skeletts der Wirbeltiere; Knochen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zo · zo · German
zo · rank #43,656 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,656
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zivilisationen
Nearest frequency peer: Zivilisationen (-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 „zo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Zerlegung
Zerlegung
56,348 corpus weight
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zerrt
56,347 corpus weight
- Zivilisatio…
Zivilisationen
56,346 corpus weight
- zo
zo
56,345 corpus weight
- zorro
zorro
56,344 corpus weight
- zumindestens
zumindestens
56,343 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „zo“ 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 | zo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #43,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „zo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zo is neighbouring look-alikes ("zu", "Zr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [zo]. Frequency #43,656 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Teil des Skeletts der Wirbeltiere; Knochen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for zo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "Zr", "zum", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is zo, spelled Z-O.
Definition
- 1Teil des Skeletts der Wirbeltiere; Knochen
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.