Lachnummer
[ˈlaxˌnʊmɐ]
The verdict
“Lachnummer” is uncommon German (frequency #50,654 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,654
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sache, Person oder Verhalten, über die/das man nur lachen kann; etwas, das man nicht ernst nimmt und über das man sich lustig macht
Corpus desk
Index DE-lachnummer · Lachnummer · German
Lachnummer · rank #50,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,654
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH kühner
Nearest frequency peer: kühner (-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 „Lachnummer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- köcheln
köcheln
49,350 corpus weight
- Kühlergrill
Kühlergrill
49,349 corpus weight
- kühner
kühner
49,348 corpus weight
- Lachnummer
Lachnummer
49,347 corpus weight
- Lagerplatz
Lagerplatz
49,346 corpus weight
- Landarbeiter
Landarbeiter
49,345 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Lachnummer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lachnummer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaxˌnʊmɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lachnummer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lachnummer is uncommon German at frequency #50,654 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlaxˌnʊmɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sache, Person oder Verhalten, über die/das man nur lachen kann; etwas, das man nicht ernst nimmt und über das man sich lustig macht".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lachnummer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Lachnummer, spelled L-A-C-H-N-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sache, Person oder Verhalten, über die/das man nur lachen kann; etwas, das man nicht ernst nimmt und über das man sich lustig macht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lachnummer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dein Auftritt war eine reine Lachnummer.
„Und wie man sie vorführt, die Talkshowgäste, zur Lachnummer macht für hämische Zuschauer.“
This word in other languages
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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