Laufes
[ˈlaʊ̯fəs]
The verdict
“Laufes” is uncommon German (frequency #55,502 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,502
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lauf
Corpus desk
Index DE-laufes · Laufes · German
Laufes · rank #55,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,502
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH latenten
Nearest frequency peer: latenten (-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 „Laufes“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Landgasthof
Landgasthof
44,502 corpus weight
- landscape
landscape
44,501 corpus weight
- latenten
latenten
44,500 corpus weight
- Laufes
Laufes
44,499 corpus weight
- Laupheim
Laupheim
44,498 corpus weight
- lauwarm
lauwarm
44,497 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Laufes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laufes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaʊ̯fəs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Laufes“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Laufes is uncommon German at frequency #55,502 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlaʊ̯fəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lauf".
Laufes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Laufes, spelled L-A-U-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lauf
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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