legalen

Name: legalen, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[leˈɡaːlən]

/[leˈɡaːlən]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“legalen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,052
frequency rank, German: 2,640
“L” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal

Corpus desk

Index DE-legalen · legalen · German

legalen · rank #22,052 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-MID #22,052
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 2,640
PHOTO-FINISH Lausitzer

Nearest frequency peer: Lausitzer (-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.

Kürzungen

77,953
Lausitzer

77,950
legalen

77,949
Lindenberg

77,948
Linguistik

77,947
Maren

77,945

What this shows „legalen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

legalen vs legen

71% similar

legalen vs legten

71% similar

legalen vs Lokalen

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for legalen
Property	Value
Headword	legalen
Language	German
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[leˈɡaːlən]
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#22,052
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „legalen“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).legalenliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#22,052

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Lausitzer“ (#22,051), „Lindenberg“ (#22,053), „Linguistik“ (#22,054). Unter 2,640 „L“-Lemmata liegt „legalen“ bei #22,052. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around legalen (IPA [leˈɡaːlən]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,052 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for legalen, with forms such as "elgalen", "leaglen", and "legaeln". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "legen", "legten", "Lokalen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is legalen, spelled L-E-G-A-L-E-N.

Definition

1
Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
2
Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
3
Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
4
Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
5
Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
6
Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
7
Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
8
Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
9
Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
10
Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
11
Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal
12
Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

elgalen
leaglen
legaeln
legalenn
legallen
legalne
leggalen
leglaen
lgealen
llegalen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legalen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "legalen"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "legalen"?

"legalen" is spelled L-E-G-A-L-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [leˈɡaːlən].

What does "legalen" mean?

As an adjective, "legalen" means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs legal

What words are commonly confused with "legalen"?

"legalen" is commonly confused with "legen", "legten", "Lokalen". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "legalen"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "legalen" is [leˈɡaːlən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "legalen" come from?

"legalen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "legalen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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