langue
[lɑ̃ɡ]
The verdict
“langue” is uncommon German (frequency #57,189 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,189
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zunge
Corpus desk
Index DE-langue · langue · German
langue · rank #57,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Langley
Nearest frequency peer: Langley (-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 „langue“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Landesarchiv
Landesarchiv
42,816 corpus weight
- Landwirtsch…
Landwirtschaftsministerium
42,814 corpus weight
- Langley
Langley
42,813 corpus weight
- langue
langue
42,812 corpus weight
- Lauras
Lauras
42,811 corpus weight
- leads
leads
42,809 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „langue“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lɑ̃ɡ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „langue“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
langue is uncommon German at frequency #57,189 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lɑ̃ɡ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
langue has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 langue, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Zunge
- 2Sprache
- 3Ferdinand de Saussure hat "langue" im Sinne von "Sprache", "Sprachsystem" als Gegenbegriff zur parole in die Linguistik eingeführt. Gemeint ist das abstrakte System von Regeln und Einheiten, das es dem Menschen ermöglicht, verständliche Äußerungen hervorzubringen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how langue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„La langue de la République est le français.“
langue und "parole" sind die Formen, in denen sich "langage" (die menschliche Sprache) verwirklicht.
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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