lallen
[ˈlalən]
The verdict
“lallen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (meist in betrunkenem Zustand) unverständlich sprechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lallen · lallen · German
lallen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlalən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lallen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lallen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈlalən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(meist in betrunkenem Zustand) unverständlich sprechen".
lallen has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 lallen, spelled L-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1(meist in betrunkenem Zustand) unverständlich sprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Was lallst du denn da?
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