längst
[lɛŋst]
The verdict
“längst” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,520
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schon lange, seit langem, seit langer/längerer Zeit
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 | längst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [lɛŋst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “längst” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around längst (IPA [lɛŋst]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,520 among 30,953 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for längst, with forms such as "llängst", "lnägst", and "lägnst". 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, "Last", "lässt", "legst", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is längst, spelled L-Ä-N-G-S-T.
Definition
- 1schon lange, seit langem, seit langer/längerer Zeit
- 2bei weitem
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llängst
- lnägst
- lägnst
- länggst
- längsst
- längstt
- längts
- länngst
- länsgt
- älngst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of längst - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “längst”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-Ä-N-G-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [lɛŋst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Last” - see the side-by-side comparison. längst vs Last
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.