laboratory
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The verdict
“laboratory” is uncommon German (frequency #53,849 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,849
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Labor, Laboratorium
Corpus desk
Index DE-laboratory · laboratory · German
laboratory · rank #53,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,849
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH köpft
Nearest frequency peer: köpft (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „laboratory“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kärntens
Kärntens
46,155 corpus weight
- Könner
Könner
46,154 corpus weight
- köpft
köpft
46,153 corpus weight
- laboratory
laboratory
46,152 corpus weight
- Ladengeschä…
Ladengeschäft
46,151 corpus weight
- Lahnstein
Lahnstein
46,150 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „laboratory“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laboratory |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „laboratory“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
laboratory is uncommon German at frequency #53,849 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Labor, Laboratorium".
laboratory doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is laboratory, spelled L-A-B-O-R-A-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Labor, Laboratorium
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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