lana
The verdict
“lana” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,966) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,966
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wollig, wollen, aus Wolle
Corpus desk
Index DE-lana · lana · German
lana · rank #18,966 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,966
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH künstlicher
Nearest frequency peer: künstlicher (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „lana“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- kuscheln
kuscheln
81,038 corpus weight
- Kühlung
Kühlung
81,037 corpus weight
- künstlicher
künstlicher
81,036 corpus weight
- lana
lana
81,035 corpus weight
- left
left
81,034 corpus weight
- legend
legend
81,033 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „lana“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | lana |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „lana“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lana is neighbouring look-alikes ("ln", "las", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #18,966 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "wollig, wollen, aus Wolle".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lana, with forms such as "lanna", "llana", and "lnaa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ln", "las", "law", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is lana, spelled L-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1wollig, wollen, aus Wolle
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lana kovrilo ofte havas franĝojn.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lanna
- llana
- lnaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lana - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "lana", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).