lapis
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The verdict
“lapis” is uncommon German (frequency #74,814 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,814
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Bleistift
Corpus desk
Index DE-lapis · lapis · German
lapis · rank #74,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,814
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landschaftsbi…
Nearest frequency peer: Landschaftsbilder (-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 „lapis“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Landesteil
Landesteil
25,191 corpus weight
- Landschafts…
Landschaftsbilder
25,188 corpus weight
- lapis
lapis
25,187 corpus weight
- Lauscher
Lauscher
25,185 corpus weight
- Lebensentwü…
Lebensentwürfe
25,184 corpus weight
- Lebensglück
Lebensglück
25,183 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lapis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lapis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lapis is uncommon German at frequency #74,814 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lapis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is lapis, spelled L-A-P-I-S.
Definition
- 1der Bleistift
- 2der Buntstift, der Farbstift
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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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