leicht
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#491
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
leicht is anGermanadj. It means: ein geringes Gewicht habend Pronounced [laɪ̯çt]. It ranks #491 in German word frequency. Often confused with leih and Licht.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [laɪ̯çt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for leicht is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laɪ̯çt]. Corpus data places it at rank #491 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for leicht, with forms such as "elicht", "leciht", and "leiccht". 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, "leih", "Licht", "light", 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 leicht, spelled L-E-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein geringes Gewicht habend
- 2einfach, nicht schwierig
- 3in geringem Maße ausgebildet, wenig ausgeprägt
- 4wenig Kalorien besitzen, schnell zu verdauen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elicht,leciht,leiccht,leichht,leichtt,leicth,leihct,liecht,lleicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for leicht
Misspelling Variants of "leicht"
Frequency rank: #491 in German
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Nearby German words
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