Läufer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,641
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Läufer is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die an einem Wettlauf teilnimmt, die sich laufend vorwärtsbewegt Pronounced [ˈlɔɪ̯fɐ]. It ranks #7,641 in German word frequency. Often confused with läuft and Laune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Läufer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɔɪ̯fɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Läufer is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɔɪ̯fɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,641 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Läufer, with forms such as "lläufer", "luäfer", and "läfuer". 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, "läuft", "Laune", "Laute", 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 Läufer, spelled L-Ä-U-F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Person, die an einem Wettlauf teilnimmt, die sich laufend vorwärtsbewegt
- 2Mitglied bei Mannschaftsspielen, steht zwischen Stürmer und Verteidiger, Mittelfeldspieler
- 3anderes Wort für Fußboten
- 4Schachfigur, die man nur diagonal bewegen darf
- 5langer und schmaler Teppich
- 6junges, nicht mehr saugendes Schwein, sogenanntes Läuferschwein (15.–26. Woche)
- 7umlaufender Teil des Elektromotors und des Generators
- 8Summe aller Laufräder mit der verbindenden Welle
- 9Kreiskolben eines Wankelmotors
- 10oberer Mühlstein (einer Getreidemühle)
- 11ein in Mauerrichtung längs verbauter Stein
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lläufer,luäfer,läfuer,läuefr,läuferr,läuffer,läufre,älufer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Läufer"
Frequency rank: #7,641 in German
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Nearby German words
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