Lees
[leːs]
The verdict
“Lees” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,048) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,048
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lee
Corpus desk
Index DE-lees · Lees · German
Lees · rank #49,048 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,048
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH leerstehende
Nearest frequency peer: leerstehende (-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 „Lees“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- lauschte
lauschte
50,957 corpus weight
- Lebensphase
Lebensphase
50,956 corpus weight
- Lebensweisen
Lebensweisen
50,955 corpus weight
- leerstehende
leerstehende
50,954 corpus weight
- Lees
Lees
50,953 corpus weight
- lenzen
lenzen
50,950 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Lees“ 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 | Lees |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leːs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Lees“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lees is neighbouring look-alikes ("Los", "Leo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [leːs]. Frequency #49,048 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lee".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lees, with forms such as "eles", "leess", and "llees". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "Leo", "leg", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Lees, spelled L-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Lee
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eles
- leess
- llees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lees - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lees", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).