lakonisch
[ˌlaˈkoːnɪʃ]
The verdict
“lakonisch” is uncommon German (frequency #68,418 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,418
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wortkarg
Corpus desk
Index DE-lakonisch · lakonisch · German
lakonisch · rank #68,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,418
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Königsweg
Nearest frequency peer: Königsweg (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „lakonisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Königsweg
Königsweg
31,584 corpus weight
- lakonisch
lakonisch
31,583 corpus weight
- lamy
lamy
31,582 corpus weight
- Landei
Landei
31,581 corpus weight
- Langhans
Langhans
31,580 corpus weight
- Leichenteile
Leichenteile
31,578 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lakonisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lakonisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌlaˈkoːnɪʃ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lakonisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lakonisch is uncommon German at frequency #68,418 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˌlaˈkoːnɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lakonisch, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 lakonisch, spelled L-A-K-O-N-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1wortkarg
- 2kurz und treffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lakonisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es wurde mit lakonischer Wortwahl beschrieben.
Lakonisch antwortete er mit: „Nein!“
This word in other languages
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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