LagevslegoTell them apart

Quick tell: Lage is a noun, lego is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Lage” is a noun and “lego” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#584
“Lage” frequency rank
#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
11669
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Lage lego
Definition Stelle, an der etwas liegt 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare

Letter map: Lage vs lego

Shared letters muted; letters that set Lage and lego apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Lage and lego follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Lage
4 ch
lego

Role in the sentence - Lage and lego

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Lage is anoun and legoaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11669, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Lage is recorded at frequency rank #584, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈlaːɡə]. lego is at rank #11,085, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

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 11669, this pair ranks #1,968,577 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Lage vs lego

Shared letters: egl. Private to "Lage": a. Private to "lego": o.

"Lage" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Lagealge · laeg · lagge · lgae · llage
  • legoelgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Lage" and "lego" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Lage" is a noun and "lego" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Lage" or "lego"?
"Lage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #584 in our German list, against #11,085 for "lego". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "Lage" and "lego". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Lage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,968,577 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Lage" and "lego" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lego 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 #1,968,577 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