Ladendieb
[ˈlaːdn̩ˌdiːp]
The verdict
“Ladendieb” is an uncommon German word, ranked #66,423 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,423
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die in einem Laden Gegenstände mit der Absicht wegnimmt, sich diese widerrechtlich zuzueignen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ladendieb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaːdn̩ˌdiːp] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ladendieb” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ladendieb is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlaːdn̩ˌdiːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,423 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die in einem Laden Gegenstände mit der Absicht wegnimmt, sich diese widerrechtlich zuzueignen".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ladendieb in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Ladendieb, spelled L-A-D-E-N-D-I-E-B.
Definition
- 1Person, die in einem Laden Gegenstände mit der Absicht wegnimmt, sich diese widerrechtlich zuzueignen
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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Using “Ladendieb”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-A-D-E-N-D-I-E-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlaːdn̩ˌdiːp] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.