legs

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

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/[…]/ noun

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

The verdict

“legs” is uncommon German (frequency #52,241 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,241
frequency rank, German: 2,640
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs leg

Corpus desk

Index DE-legs · legs · German

legs · rank #52,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #52,241
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-1 1 vowel
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 2,640
PHOTO-FINISH legendärer

Nearest frequency peer: legendärer (-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.

lateinameri…

47,762
legendärer

47,761
legs

47,760
Lengerich

47,759
letze

47,758
Lichtstrahl

47,757

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „legs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for legs
Property	Value
Headword	legs
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[…]
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#52,241
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „legs“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.legsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#52,241

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

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „legendärer“ (#52,240), „Lengerich“ (#52,242), „lateinamerikanische“ (#52,239). Unter 2,640 „L“-Lemmata liegt „legs“ bei #52,241. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

legs is uncommon German at frequency #52,241 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs leg".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for legs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is legs, spelled L-E-G-S.

Definition

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Plural des Substantivs leg

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 "legs"?

"legs" is spelled L-E-G-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].

What does "legs" mean?

As a noun, "legs" means: Plural des Substantivs leg

How do you pronounce "legs"?

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

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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lido#52,245 Mads#52,262 huss#52,166 Prüm#52,341