leak
[liːk]
The verdict
“leak” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,874) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,874
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leaken
Corpus desk
Index DE-leak · leak · German
leak · rank #38,874 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,874
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH laue
Nearest frequency peer: laue (-2 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 „leak“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ladefläche
Ladefläche
61,132 corpus weight
- laue
laue
61,129 corpus weight
- leak
leak
61,127 corpus weight
- Leuchter
Leuchter
61,125 corpus weight
- Liane
Liane
61,124 corpus weight
- Libido
Libido
61,123 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „leak“ 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 | leak |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [liːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „leak“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leak is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lk", "Leo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [liːk]. Frequency #38,874 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leaken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for leak, with forms such as "elak", "leakk", and "leka". 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, "Lk", "Leo", "Lee", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is leak, spelled L-E-A-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leaken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elak
- leakk
- leka
- lleak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leak - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).