Lag
German, noun
Lag is spelled L-A-G (3 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written German, the 912th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lag is a German masculine noun meaning “latency, lag (the delay between a request and its response)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, lag is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of liegen”.
What does Lag mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinelatency, lag (the delay between a request and its response)
- 2
masculinethe timespan between which a change of a variable effects on an other variable
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of liegen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Landesarbeitsgericht 2. Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft 3. Linksassoziative Grammatik
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Lag
- Lags genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Lag in German?
Lag appears 95 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).