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The verdict
“laid” is an uncommon German word, ranked #95,872 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #95,872
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs lay
| 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) |
Where “laid” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for laid is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,872 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “laid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-A-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.