leather
[leðə(r)]
The verdict
“leather” is uncommon German (frequency #59,838 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,838
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leder
Corpus desk
Index DE-leather · leather · German
leather · rank #59,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,838
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lebensgeschic…
Nearest frequency peer: Lebensgeschichten (+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 „leather“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Latenz
Latenz
40,166 corpus weight
- launisch
launisch
40,165 corpus weight
- leather
leather
40,163 corpus weight
- Lebensgesch…
Lebensgeschichten
40,162 corpus weight
- lebensmüde
lebensmüde
40,161 corpus weight
- lebenswerte
lebenswerte
40,160 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „leather“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leather |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leðə(r)] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „leather“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
leather is uncommon German at frequency #59,838 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [leðə(r)]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Leder".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for leather, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is leather, spelled L-E-A-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Leder
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how leather appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The leather was very old.
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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