Länge
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,930
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Länge is aGermannoun. It means: eine horizontale Ausdehnung, Dimension Pronounced [ˈlɛŋə]. It ranks #1,930 in German word frequency. Often confused with LNG and Lüge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Länge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɛŋə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Länge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɛŋə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,930 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Länge, with forms such as "llänge", "lnäge", and "lägne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LNG", "Lüge", "line", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Länge, spelled L-Ä-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine horizontale Ausdehnung, Dimension
- 2als Gegenstück zur Breite, Höhe oder Tiefe eine messbare Strecke an zweidimensionalen oder dreidimensionalen, rechtwinkligen Objekten (Flächen und Körper)
- 3eine erhebliche, beträchtliche, augenfällige Ausdehnung nach vorn oder hinten
- 4Weitschweifigkeit, Endlosigkeit, Ausführlichkeit, beträchtliche Ausdehnung
- 5im Winkelmaß angegebene Ost-West-Koordinate einer geographischen Position, Winkelabstand vom Zentralmeridian
- 6ein Weg entlang einer Kurve
- 7zeitliche Ausdehnung
- 8zu langsame oder zu lange andauernde Stelle; (nur Plural)
- 9die Anzahl der Zeichen in einem Wort oder Text
- 10lange Silbe eines Wortes im Vers
- 11Größe sprachlicher Einheiten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: llänge,lnäge,lägne,läneg,längge,lännge,älnge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Länge
Misspelling Variants of "Länge"
Frequency rank: #1,930 in German
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