LAN
[laːn]
The verdict
“LAN” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,904) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,904
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lokales Computernetzwerk
Corpus desk
Index DE-lan · LAN · German
LAN · rank #8,904 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,904
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Künstlers
Nearest frequency peer: Künstlers (-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 “LAN”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kämpfte
kämpfte
91,100 corpus weight
- königliche
königliche
91,099 corpus weight
- Künstlers
Künstlers
91,098 corpus weight
- LAN
LAN
91,097 corpus weight
- Laufzeit
Laufzeit
91,096 corpus weight
- lecken
lecken
91,095 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “LAN” 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 | LAN |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [laːn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “LAN” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LAN is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Li", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [laːn]. Frequency #8,904 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "lokales Computernetzwerk".
LAN doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Li", "LG", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is LAN, spelled L-A-N.
Definition
- 1lokales Computernetzwerk
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LAN appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe Probleme beim Einrichten des LAN.
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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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.