Lauer
German, noun
Lauer is spelled L-A-U-E-R (5 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written German, the 19,537th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lauer is a German feminine noun meaning “lurk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, lauer is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Hinterhalt”.
What does Lauer mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelurk
Räuber legen sich oft hinter Büschen auf die Lauer und warten auf Opfer.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hinterhalt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is Lauer in German?
Lauer appears 2.7 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).