law
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The verdict
“law” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,097) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,097
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesetz
Corpus desk
Index DE-law · law · German
law · rank #8,097 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,097
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH kühl
Nearest frequency peer: kühl (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „law“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- körperlichen
körperlichen
91,907 corpus weight
- Körperverle…
Körperverletzung
91,906 corpus weight
- kühl
kühl
91,905 corpus weight
- law
law
91,904 corpus weight
- lenken
lenken
91,903 corpus weight
- LP
LP
91,902 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „law“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | law |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „law“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for law is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "Li", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #8,097 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Gesetz".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for law, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "Li", "LG", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is law, spelled L-A-W.
Definition
- 1Gesetz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how law appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All persons shall be equal before the law.
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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