Lärm
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,622
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Lärm is aGermannoun. It means: subjektiv als unangenehm empfundener Schall, der unerwünschte Auswirkungen auf den Menschen hat (etwa das Gehör schädigt, krank machen kann, stört oder belästigt) Pronounced [lɛʁm]. It ranks #5,622 in German word frequency. Often confused with Lr and las.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lärm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lɛʁm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lärm is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lɛʁm]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,622 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "subjektiv als unangenehm empfundener Schall, der unerwünschte Auswirkungen auf den Menschen hat (etwa das Gehör schädigt, krank machen kann, stört oder belästigt)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lärm, with forms such as "llärm", "lräm", and "lämr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lr", "las", "law", 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 Lärm, spelled L-Ä-R-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1subjektiv als unangenehm empfundener Schall, der unerwünschte Auswirkungen auf den Menschen hat (etwa das Gehör schädigt, krank machen kann, stört oder belästigt)
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Also misspelled as: llärm,lräm,lämr,lärmm,lärrm,älrm
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Misspelling Variants of "Lärm"
Frequency rank: #5,622 in German
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