Legende
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,287
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Legende is aGermannoun. It means: Erzählung über Begebenheiten, Leben und Tod von Personen, in erhöhender Weise – ähnlich der Sage oder dem Mythos Pronounced [leˈɡɛndə]. It ranks #4,287 in German word frequency. Often confused with liegend and legends.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Legende |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈɡɛndə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Legende is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leˈɡɛndə]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,287 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Legende, with forms such as "elgende", "leegnde", and "legedne". 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, "liegend", "legends", "liegende", 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 Legende, spelled L-E-G-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Erzählung über Begebenheiten, Leben und Tod von Personen, in erhöhender Weise – ähnlich der Sage oder dem Mythos
- 2verbreitete Behauptung, Erzählung, die nicht belegt werden kann, oder grotesk übertrieben wirkt, häufig unter der englischen Bezeichnung urban legend ^(→ en) oder urban myth ^(→ en)
- 3erklärende Liste der Bedeutungen
- 4erklärende Liste der Bedeutungen
- 5erklärende Liste der Bedeutungen
- 6die Umschrift auf dem Rand einer Münze
- 7eine Persönlichkeit, die auf Grund besonderer Leistungen, zum Beispiel im Sport, in der Musik oder starker medialer Präsenz zu hoher Berühmtheit gelangt ist
- 8im Geheimdienst-Jargon eine manipulierte Biografie
- 9etwas, das von nun an der Vergangenheit angehört, zum Beispiel jemand, dessen (oft unnatürlicher) Tod einem gelegen kommt und der gestorben ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elgende,leegnde,legedne,legendde,legened,legennde,leggende,legnede,lgeende,llegende
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Legende
Misspelling Variants of "Legende"
Frequency rank: #4,287 in German
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