leg
[leːk]
The verdict
“leg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,358) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,358
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
Corpus desk
Index DE-leg · leg · German
leg · rank #7,358 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,358
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH liefen
Nearest frequency peer: liefen (+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 „leg“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kriminelle
Kriminelle
92,647 corpus weight
- kündigt
kündigt
92,646 corpus weight
- Künstlern
Künstlern
92,645 corpus weight
- leg
leg
92,643 corpus weight
- liefen
liefen
92,642 corpus weight
- low
low
92,640 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „leg“ 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 | leg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [leːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „leg“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leg is neighbouring look-alikes ("Li", "LG", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [leːk]. Frequency #7,358 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for leg, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "LG", "LP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is leg, spelled L-E-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
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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