laudavsläuftConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#24,813
“lauda” frequency rank
#585
“läuft” frequency rank
25398
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lauda läuft
Definition Partitiv Singular des Substantivs laud „Tisch“ 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs laufen

Letter map: lauda vs läuft

Shared letters muted; letters that set lauda and läuft apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
lauda
5 ch
läuft

Role in the sentence - lauda and läuft

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lauda is anoun and läuftaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25398, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lauda is recorded at frequency rank #24,813, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. läuft is at rank #585, tagged as averb, pronounced [lɔɪ̯ft].

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 25398, this pair ranks #1,833,930 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lauda vs läuft

Shared letters: lu. Private to "lauda": ad. Private to "läuft": ftä.

"lauda" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "läuft" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • laudaaluda · ladua · lauad · laudda · llauda · luada

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lauda" and "läuft" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lauda" is a noun and "läuft" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "lauda" or "läuft"?
"läuft" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #585 in our German list, against #24,813 for "lauda". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "lauda" and "läuft". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lauda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "läuft" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,833,930 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lauda" and "läuft" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lauda 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 #1,833,930 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