Lagos
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The verdict
“Lagos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,306
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größte Stadt in sowie ehemalige Hauptstadt von Nigeria
Corpus desk
Index DE-lagos · Lagos · German
Lagos · rank #41,306 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,306
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH kürzerer
Nearest frequency peer: kürzerer (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Lagos“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Käsekuchen
Käsekuchen
58,699 corpus weight
- kündigten
kündigten
58,697 corpus weight
- kürzerer
kürzerer
58,696 corpus weight
- Lagos
Lagos
58,695 corpus weight
- Landbau
Landbau
58,694 corpus weight
- Latten
Latten
58,692 corpus weight
What this shows „Lagos“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lagos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lagos“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Lagos (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,306 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lagos, with forms such as "algos", "laggos", and "lagoss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "las", "lass", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Lagos, spelled L-A-G-O-S.
Definition
- 1größte Stadt in sowie ehemalige Hauptstadt von Nigeria
- 2nigerianischer Bundesstaat
- 3Stadt im Süden von Portugal
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lagos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und während meine Schwester brannte und meine Familie auseinanderbrach, war ich in Lagos, hörte mir einen Vortrag an, aß in einem chinesischen Restaurant zu Abend, versuchte, das Rätsel vom verrückten Vergewaltiger zu lösen, und erfuhr erst von der Tragödie, als ich mit meinem Abschlusszeugnis als Journalist wieder nach Hause kam.“
„Er hatte seine Schiffe nach West- und Nodafrika geführt, im Süden bis nach Lagos hinunter und ostwärts durch die tückische Straße von Gibraltar - welche die Spanier beherrschten - bis nach Salerno im Königreich Neapel.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- algos
- laggos
- lagoss
- lagso
- laogs
- lgaos
- llagos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lagos - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lagos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).