# ogle

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈəʊɡl̩/ · frequency rank #42,304

## Definitions
1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

## Etymology
17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). By surface analysis, eye + -le.

## Easily confused with
- **one** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-one)
- **old** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-old)
- **oil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-oil)
- **owe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-owe)
- **ore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ore)
- **owl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-owl)
- **ole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ole)
- **Ola** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ola)
- **only** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-only)
- **once** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-once)
- **Oslo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-oslo)
- **owls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-owls)
- **oily** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-oily)
- **Oleg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-oleg)
- **ogre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ogre)
- **OLED** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-oled)
- **olde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-olde)
- **ooze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ooze)
- **Opie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-opie)
- **ould** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ogle-vs-ould)

## Common misspellings (4)
`gole`, `ogel`, `oggle`, `oglle`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ogle