lassen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#162
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lassen is aGermanverb. It means: nichts verändern und somit alles so lassen, wie es ist; etwas beim Status quo belassen Pronounced [ˈlasn̩]. It ranks #162 in German word frequency. Often confused with lässt and lesen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlasn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lassen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlasn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #162 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 lassen, with forms such as "alssen", "lasesn", and "lassenn". 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, "lässt", "lesen", "losen", 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 lassen, spelled L-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nichts verändern und somit alles so lassen, wie es ist; etwas beim Status quo belassen
- 2etwas Bestimmtes nicht tun und somit Veränderungen bleibenlassen; eine Aktion unterlassen
- 3etwas erlauben und somit eine Veränderung passieren lassen; eine Aktion geschehen lassen, zulassen
- 4etwas tun und somit eine Veränderung aktiv betreiben, eine Aktion durchführen
- 5etwas fordern und jemanden bitten/zwingen etwas zu tun; eine Aktion anordnen
- 6jemandem etwas geben; etwas überlassen, behalten lassen
- 7jemanden oder etwas nicht mitnehmen, zurücklassen
- 8eine Möglichkeit in sich bergen, zu etwas geeignet sein
- 9Flüssigkeiten ermöglichen abzufließen, ablassen
- 10die Beherrschung behalten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alssen,lasesn,lassenn,lassne,laßen,llassen,lsasen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lassen
Misspelling Variants of "lassen"
Frequency rank: #162 in German
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Nearby German words
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