lenze
[ˈlɛnt͡sə]
The verdict
“lenze” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs lenzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lenze · lenze · German
lenze · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lenze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlɛnt͡sə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “lenze” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
lenze is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈlɛnt͡sə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lenze, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is lenze, spelled L-E-N-Z-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs lenzen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs lenzen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs lenzen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs lenzen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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