Lausanne
[loˈzan]
The verdict
“Lausanne” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,119
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine schweizerische Stadt am Genfer See
Corpus desk
Index DE-lausanne · Lausanne · German
Lausanne · rank #14,119 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,119
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landesverband
Nearest frequency peer: Landesverband (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Lausanne“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- kürzere
kürzere
85,885 corpus weight
- Lamm
Lamm
85,884 corpus weight
- Landesverba…
Landesverband
85,883 corpus weight
- Lausanne
Lausanne
85,882 corpus weight
- lehr
lehr
85,881 corpus weight
- letzteren
letzteren
85,880 corpus weight
What this shows „Lausanne“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lausanne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [loˈzan] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lausanne“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Lausanne (IPA [loˈzan]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,119 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine schweizerische Stadt am Genfer See".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lausanne, with forms such as "alusanne", "lasuanne", and "lauasnne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lasagne", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Lausanne, spelled L-A-U-S-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1eine schweizerische Stadt am Genfer See
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lausanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Das Bundesgericht (BGer) hat in Lausanne seinen Sitz, ebenso der Internationale Sportgerichtshof (TAS). Zudem haben in Lausanne verschiedene Sportweltverbände, darunter das Internationale Olympische Komitee (IOC), ihren Hauptsitz.“
"Lausanne liegt an einem steilen Ufer des Genfersees. Das Stadtgebiet, das sich über eine Differenz von mehr als 300 Höhenmeter erstreckt, wird durch die Bäche Louve und Flon in drei Quartiere zerschnitten, die durch teilweise aufwändige Brücken miteinander verbunden sind."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alusanne
- lasuanne
- lauasnne
- lausane
- lausanen
- lausnane
- laussanne
- llausanne
- luasanne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lausanne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lausanne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).