Lactose
[lakˈtoːzə]
The verdict
“Lactose” is uncommon German (frequency #72,646 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,646
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Zucker, der in Milch und Milchprodukten enthalten ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-lactose · Lactose · German
Lactose · rank #72,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,646
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Kübeln
Nearest frequency peer: Kübeln (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Lactose”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kälteste
kälteste
27,358 corpus weight
- körpereigene
körpereigene
27,357 corpus weight
- Kübeln
Kübeln
27,356 corpus weight
- Lactose
Lactose
27,355 corpus weight
- Ladentisch
Ladentisch
27,354 corpus weight
- Lagerhäuser
Lagerhäuser
27,353 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lactose” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lactose |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lakˈtoːzə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Lactose” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Lactose is uncommon German at frequency #72,646 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lakˈtoːzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Zucker, der in Milch und Milchprodukten enthalten ist".
Lactose doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Lactose, spelled L-A-C-T-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1ein Zucker, der in Milch und Milchprodukten enthalten ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lactose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lactose ist eine kristalline, farblose Substanz mit süßem Geschmack.
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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