lame
[lam]
The verdict
“lame” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,857
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dünne Platte, dünne Schicht, Klinge
Corpus desk
Index DE-lame · lame · German
lame · rank #49,857 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,857
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Laatzen
Nearest frequency peer: Laatzen (-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 “lame”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kunstszene
Kunstszene
50,148 corpus weight
- Kängurus
Kängurus
50,147 corpus weight
- Kölle
Kölle
50,146 corpus weight
- Laatzen
Laatzen
50,145 corpus weight
- lame
lame
50,144 corpus weight
- Lasern
Lasern
50,141 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lame” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lame |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lam] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “lame” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lame (IPA [lam]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,857 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lame, with forms such as "alme", "laem", and "lamme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "las", "Lee", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is lame, spelled L-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1dünne Platte, dünne Schicht, Klinge
- 2Schwert
- 3Krieger, Fechter, Degen
- 4Schwert , eine Farbe in Italienisch-Spanische Blatt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„C'est une fine lame.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alme
- laem
- lamme
- llame
- lmae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lame - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lame", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "lame". Here's where to go from here.
- "lame" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "le". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #49,857 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "L" letter cohort. L–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.