legt
[leːkt]
The verdict
“legt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,604
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
Corpus desk
Index DE-legt · legt · German
legt · rank #1,604 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,604
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH kostet
Nearest frequency peer: kostet (-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 „legt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Jahrhunderts
Jahrhunderts
98,400 corpus weight
- kg
kg
98,399 corpus weight
- kostet
kostet
98,398 corpus weight
- legt
legt
98,397 corpus weight
- Leitung
Leitung
98,396 corpus weight
- Lied
Lied
98,395 corpus weight
What this shows „legt“ 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 | legt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [leːkt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „legt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around legt (IPA [leːkt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,604 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for legt, with forms such as "elgt", "leggt", and "legtt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LG", "Leo", "let", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is legt, spelled L-E-G-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
- 32. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgt
- leggt
- legtt
- letg
- lget
- llegt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "legt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).