laid
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The verdict
“laid” is uncommon German (frequency #95,872 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,872
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs lay
Corpus desk
Index DE-laid · laid · German
laid · rank #95,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,872
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Ladengeschäfte
Nearest frequency peer: Ladengeschäfte (-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 “laid”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Küstengebiet
Küstengebiet
4,132 corpus weight
- laboratories
laboratories
4,131 corpus weight
- Ladengeschä…
Ladengeschäfte
4,130 corpus weight
- laid
laid
4,129 corpus weight
- Lampions
Lampions
4,128 corpus weight
- Landers
Landers
4,127 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “laid” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “laid” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
laid is uncommon German at frequency #95,872 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs lay".
Zero misspellings are on record for laid in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is laid, spelled L-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs lay
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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