lebst
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,057
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lebst is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leben Pronounced [leːpst]. It ranks #9,057 in German word frequency. Often confused with let and lebt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lebst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [leːpst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lebst is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leːpst]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,057 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leben".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lebst, with forms such as "elbst", "lbest", and "lebbst". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "let", "lebt", "Lust", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is lebst, spelled L-E-B-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leben
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elbst,lbest,lebbst,lebsst,lebstt,lebts,lesbt,llebst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lebst
Misspelling Variants of "lebst"
Frequency rank: #9,057 in German
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Nearby German words
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