Lava
[ˈlaːva]
The verdict
“Lava” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,331
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eruptiertes Magma und das beim Erkalten daraus entstehende Gestein
Corpus desk
Index DE-lava · Lava · German
Lava · rank #21,331 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,331
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landeskirche
Nearest frequency peer: Landeskirche (-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 „Lava“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kunz
Kunz
78,673 corpus weight
- kurzum
kurzum
78,672 corpus weight
- Landeskirche
Landeskirche
78,671 corpus weight
- Lava
Lava
78,670 corpus weight
- least
least
78,668 corpus weight
- Lebensende
Lebensende
78,667 corpus weight
What this shows „Lava“ 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 | Lava |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaːva] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lava“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Lava (IPA [ˈlaːva]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,331 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eruptiertes Magma und das beim Erkalten daraus entstehende Gestein".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lava, with forms such as "alva", "laav", and "lavva". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lv", "law", "Lea", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Lava, spelled L-A-V-A.
Definition
- 1eruptiertes Magma und das beim Erkalten daraus entstehende Gestein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lava appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pompeji wurde im Jahre 79 von Lava und Asche aus dem Vesuv zerstört.
„Andere, heftiger dagegen, ließen erſt glühen und ſchmelzen, auch durchaus ein Feuer obwalten, das, nachdem es auf der Oberfläche genugſam gewirkt, zuletzt ins Tiefſte zurückgezogen, ſich noch immer durch die ungeſtüm ſowohl im Meer als auf der Erde wütenden Vulkane betätigte und durch ſukzeſſiven Auswurf und gleichfalls nach und nach überſtrömende Laven…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alva
- laav
- lavva
- llava
- lvaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lava - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Lava", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).