Legierung
[leˈɡiːʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Legierung” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,149
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - homogene Mischung unterschiedlicher Metalle
Corpus desk
Index DE-legierung · Legierung · German
Legierung · rank #32,149 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,149
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Laurentius
Nearest frequency peer: Laurentius (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Legierung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Laufwerk
Laufwerk
67,854 corpus weight
- Laurentius
Laurentius
67,853 corpus weight
- Legierung
Legierung
67,852 corpus weight
- legitimieren
legitimieren
67,851 corpus weight
- lemon
lemon
67,850 corpus weight
- Leserbrief
Leserbrief
67,849 corpus weight
What this shows „Legierung“ 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Legierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈɡiːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Legierung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Legierung (IPA [leˈɡiːʁʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,149 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "homogene Mischung unterschiedlicher Metalle".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Legierung, with forms such as "elgierung", "legeirung", and "leggierung". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Legierungen", "Lagerung", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Legierung, spelled L-E-G-I-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1homogene Mischung unterschiedlicher Metalle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Legierung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Legierungen wurden schon früh in der Menschheitsgeschichte erfunden.
„In die nun leere Hülle gießt er das heiße, flüssige Metall, eine Legierung aus Kupfer und anderen Elementen, vor allem Zinn oder Zink.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgierung
- legeirung
- leggierung
- legiernug
- legierrung
- legierugn
- legierungg
- legierunng
- legieurng
- legireung
- leigerung
- lgeierung
- llegierung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Legierung - 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.
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 "Legierung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).