lanes
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The verdict
“lanes” is uncommon German (frequency #83,013 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,013
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs lane
Corpus desk
Index DE-lanes · lanes · German
lanes · rank #83,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,013
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,953
- PHOTO-FINISH Landtagswahlk…
Nearest frequency peer: Landtagswahlkampf (-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 “lanes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Landschafts…
Landschaftsschutz
16,990 corpus weight
- Landtagswah…
Landtagswahlkampf
16,989 corpus weight
- lanes
lanes
16,988 corpus weight
- langte
langte
16,987 corpus weight
- lastete
lastete
16,985 corpus weight
- lauerten
lauerten
16,984 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lanes” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lanes” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lanes is uncommon German at frequency #83,013 among 30,953 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs lane".
No misspelling variants are generated for lanes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is lanes, spelled L-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs lane
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.