leih
[laɪ̯]
The verdict
“leih” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,670) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,670
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leihen
Corpus desk
Index DE-leih · leih · German
leih · rank #40,670 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,670
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lehrpläne
Nearest frequency peer: Lehrpläne (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „leih“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Lebenszyklus
Lebenszyklus
59,335 corpus weight
- lehrende
lehrende
59,333 corpus weight
- Lehrpläne
Lehrpläne
59,332 corpus weight
- leih
leih
59,331 corpus weight
- Leitplanke
Leitplanke
59,330 corpus weight
- letztmals
letztmals
59,328 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „leih“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | leih |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [laɪ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „leih“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for leih is neighbouring look-alikes ("Li", "Leo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [laɪ̯]. Frequency #40,670 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leihen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for leih, with forms such as "elih", "lehi", and "leihh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Li", "Leo", "let", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is leih, spelled L-E-I-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs leihen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elih
- lehi
- leihh
- lleih
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leih - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).