LadungenvsLösungenWhich spelling fits?

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

#29,210
“Ladungen” frequency rank
#2,665
“Lösungen” frequency rank
31875
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Ladungen Lösungen
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Ladung Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Lösung

Where the eye mixes Ladungen and Lösungen

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. Ladungen and Lösungen follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
Ladungen
8 ch
Lösungen

Look-alike desk: Ladungen vs Lösungen

A purely visual mix-up. Ladungen ([ˈlaːdʊŋən]) and Lösungen ([ˈløːzʊŋən]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ladungen is recorded at frequency rank #29,210, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈlaːdʊŋən]. Lösungen is at rank #2,665, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈløːzʊŋən].

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 31875, this pair ranks #1,719,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Ladungen vs Lösungen

Shared letters: eglnu. Private to "Ladungen": ad. Private to "Lösungen": .

"Ladungen" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "Lösungen" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Ladungenaldungen · laddungen · ladnugen · ladugnen · ladunegn · ladungenn · ladunggen · ladungne

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Ladungen" for "Lösungen" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ˈlaːdʊŋən] versus [ˈløːzʊŋən]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "Ladungen" vs "Lösungen" - which ranks higher?
"Lösungen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,665 in our German list, against #29,210 for "Ladungen". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Ladungen" and "Lösungen" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Ladungen" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Lösungen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,719,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Ladungen" and "Lösungen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Ladungen vs Landungen". 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 #1,719,250 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