lesbisch
[ˈlɛsbɪʃ]
The verdict
“lesbisch” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,969
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von der Insel Lesbos
Corpus desk
Index DE-lesbisch · lesbisch · German
lesbisch · rank #18,969 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH legend
Nearest frequency peer: legend (-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 „lesbisch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- lana
lana
81,035 corpus weight
- left
left
81,034 corpus weight
- legend
legend
81,033 corpus weight
- lesbisch
lesbisch
81,032 corpus weight
- liebend
liebend
81,031 corpus weight
- lindern
lindern
81,030 corpus weight
What this shows „lesbisch“ 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 | lesbisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlɛsbɪʃ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lesbisch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around lesbisch (IPA [ˈlɛsbɪʃ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,969 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for lesbisch, with forms such as "elsbisch", "lebsisch", and "lesbbisch". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lesbische", "lesbischen", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is lesbisch, spelled L-E-S-B-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1von der Insel Lesbos
- 2als Frau homosexuelle Neigungen besitzend, solche Neigungen betreffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lesbisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Denn nicht alles, was Aeolisch heisst, ist darum auch Lesbisch, und nicht alles Lesbische, was die späten Inschriften liefern, ist darum auch Sapphisch.“
„Ihre Seemacht bezeugt, dass an allen von den Perserkönigen geführten Kriegen lesbische Schiffe Theil nahmen; auch in den Kämpfen der Griechen unter sich entschied häufig die Theilnahme lesbischer Schiffe.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elsbisch
- lebsisch
- lesbbisch
- lesbicsh
- lesbiscch
- lesbischh
- lesbishc
- lesbissch
- lesbsich
- lesibsch
- lessbisch
- llesbisch
- lsebisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lesbisch - 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 "lesbisch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).