ladavsladyWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“lada” and “lady” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#46,098
“lada” frequency rank
#3,599
“lady” frequency rank
49697
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lada lady
Definition Gebäude auf Bauernhöfen zum Lagern von Stroh, Heu und andere landwirtschaftliche Produkte höfliche Bezeichnung weiblicher Person(en)

Letter map: lada vs lady

Shared letters muted; letters that set lada and lady apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
lada
4 ch
lady

Pair insight - lada / lady

lada and lady are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by a single letter - a in “lada” becomes y in “lady”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49697, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lada is recorded at frequency rank #46,098, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. lady is at rank #3,599, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈleɪdi].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49697, this pair ranks #1,201,692 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lada vs lady

Shared letters: adl. Private to "lada": -. Private to "lady": y.

"lada" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "lady" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ladalaad · ladda · ldaa · llada
  • ladyaldy · laddy · ladyy · layd · lday · llady

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "lada" for "lady" ever safe?
No. They differ by a single letter - a in “lada” becomes y in “lady”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "lada" vs "lady" - which ranks higher?
"lady" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,599 in our German list, against #46,098 for "lada". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "lada" and "lady".

  • Full dictionary entry for "lada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lady" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,201,692 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lada" and "lady" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lada vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,201,692 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list