Lahn
[laːn]
The verdict
“Lahn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,764
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rechter Nebenfluss des Rheins: entspringt im Rothaargebirge und mündet nach 240 km Flusslauf in Lahnstein in den Rhein
Corpus desk
Index DE-lahn · Lahn · German
Lahn · rank #16,764 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,764
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landsleute
Nearest frequency peer: Landsleute (+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 „Lahn“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kreuzfahrt
Kreuzfahrt
83,241 corpus weight
- Kritiken
Kritiken
83,240 corpus weight
- kräftiger
kräftiger
83,239 corpus weight
- Lahn
Lahn
83,237 corpus weight
- Landsleute
Landsleute
83,236 corpus weight
- Lausitz
Lausitz
83,234 corpus weight
What this shows „Lahn“ 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 | Lahn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [laːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lahn“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Lahn (IPA [laːn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,764 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "rechter Nebenfluss des Rheins: entspringt im Rothaargebirge und mündet nach 240 km Flusslauf in Lahnstein in den Rhein".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lahn, with forms such as "alhn", "lahhn", and "lahnn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ln", "las", "law", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Lahn, spelled L-A-H-N.
Definition
- 1rechter Nebenfluss des Rheins: entspringt im Rothaargebirge und mündet nach 240 km Flusslauf in Lahnstein in den Rhein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lahn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ab Gießen ist die Lahn durch mehrere Staustufen schiffbar gemacht.
Bad Ems ist ein traditionsreicher Kurort an der Lahn.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alhn
- lahhn
- lahnn
- lanh
- lhan
- llahn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lahn - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Lahn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).