Lee
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,444
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Lee is aGermannoun. It means: Laut Duden kann Lee sowohl das weibliche als auch das sächliche Geschlecht haben. In der Geografie wird nur die sächliche Form benutzt. In der Seemannssprache wird Lee meist ohne Artikel benutzt. Pronounced [leː]. It ranks #4,444 in German word frequency. Often confused with Li and LG.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lee is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leː]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,444 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Lee in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "LG", "LP", 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 Lee, spelled L-E-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laut Duden kann Lee sowohl das weibliche als auch das sächliche Geschlecht haben. In der Geografie wird nur die sächliche Form benutzt. In der Seemannssprache wird Lee meist ohne Artikel benutzt.
- 2[1] Nautik: die dem Wind abgewandte Seite des Schiffes
- 3[2] Meteorologie: die dem Wind abgewandte Seite eines Gebirges
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Frequency rank: #4,444 in German
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