Landei
[ˈlantˌʔaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Landei” is uncommon German (frequency #68,420 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,420
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ei, das von einem Bauernhof stammt und nicht aus einer Legebatterie
Corpus desk
Index DE-landei · Landei · German
Landei · rank #68,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,420
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lamy
Nearest frequency peer: lamy (-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 „Landei“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Königsweg
Königsweg
31,584 corpus weight
- lakonisch
lakonisch
31,583 corpus weight
- lamy
lamy
31,582 corpus weight
- Landei
Landei
31,581 corpus weight
- Langhans
Langhans
31,580 corpus weight
- Leichenteile
Leichenteile
31,578 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Landei“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Landei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlantˌʔaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Landei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Landei is uncommon German at frequency #68,420 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlantˌʔaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Landei in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Landei, spelled L-A-N-D-E-I.
Definition
- 1Ei, das von einem Bauernhof stammt und nicht aus einer Legebatterie
- 2Mensch, der auf dem Land lebt (was bedeutet: nicht in der Stadt) und in vielerlei Hinsicht für unerfahren und naiv gehalten wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Landei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heute gibt es frische Landeier zum Frühstück.
Obwohl Herr Meier schon seit über zwanzig Jahren in Düsseldorf wohnt, ist er doch immer ein Landei geblieben.
Antonyms
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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