lale
[lɑːlɛ]
The verdict
“lale” is uncommon German (frequency #89,200 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,200
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tulpe
Corpus desk
Index DE-lale · lale · German
lale · rank #89,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,200
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landesligisten
Nearest frequency peer: Landesligisten (+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 „lale“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kühlhaus
Kühlhaus
10,806 corpus weight
- kümmerlich
kümmerlich
10,805 corpus weight
- Küstenregio…
Küstenregionen
10,803 corpus weight
- lale
lale
10,801 corpus weight
- Landesligis…
Landesligisten
10,800 corpus weight
- lassie
lassie
10,797 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lale“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lale |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lɑːlɛ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lale“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lale is uncommon German at frequency #89,200 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lɑːlɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tulpe".
No misspelling variants are generated for lale in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is lale, spelled L-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tulpe
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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