lenzen
[ˈlɛnt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“lenzen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,051
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wasser aus einem Boots- oder Schiffskörper entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lenzen · lenzen · German
lenzen · rank #49,051 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,051
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lees
Nearest frequency peer: Lees (-3 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 „lenzen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lebensphase
Lebensphase
50,956 corpus weight
- Lebensweisen
Lebensweisen
50,955 corpus weight
- leerstehende
leerstehende
50,954 corpus weight
- Lees
Lees
50,953 corpus weight
- lenzen
lenzen
50,950 corpus weight
- Lieblingsli…
Lieblingslied
50,947 corpus weight
What this shows „lenzen“ 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 | lenzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlɛnt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lenzen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lenzen (IPA [ˈlɛnt͡sn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,051 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Wasser aus einem Boots- oder Schiffskörper entfernen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lenzen, with forms such as "elnzen", "lenezn", and "lennzen". 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, "lesen", "Lünen", "lernen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 lenzen, spelled L-E-N-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1Wasser aus einem Boots- oder Schiffskörper entfernen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lenzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit dem Lenzventil kann man ein Boot nur bei der Fahrt lenzen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elnzen
- lenezn
- lennzen
- lenzenn
- lenzne
- lenzzen
- leznen
- llenzen
- lnezen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lenzen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "lenzen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).