landläufig
[ˈlantˌlɔɪ̯fɪç]
The verdict
“landläufig” is uncommon German (frequency #66,427 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,427
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weit verbreitet, üblich
Corpus desk
Index DE-landlaufig · landläufig · German
landläufig · rank #66,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,427
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landfriedensb…
Nearest frequency peer: Landfriedensbruch (-2 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 „landläufig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ladendieb
Ladendieb
33,578 corpus weight
- Ladenlokal
Ladenlokal
33,577 corpus weight
- Landfrieden…
Landfriedensbruch
33,576 corpus weight
- landläufig
landläufig
33,574 corpus weight
- Lauben
Lauben
33,571 corpus weight
- Laufwerke
Laufwerke
33,570 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „landläufig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landläufig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlantˌlɔɪ̯fɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „landläufig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
landläufig is uncommon German at frequency #66,427 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈlantˌlɔɪ̯fɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weit verbreitet, üblich".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for landläufig, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is landläufig, spelled L-A-N-D-L-Ä-U-F-I-G.
Definition
- 1weit verbreitet, üblich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landläufig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die landläufige Vorstellung von Leben, die gewissermaßen saisonal eingeteilt war in Zeiten des Heranwachsens, des Blühens und Verblühens, ist von der modernen Altersforschung widerlegt.“
„Wir haben seit dem 11. September weitaus mehr Mitglieder der al-Qaida gefangen genommen, als man landläufig annimmt.“
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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