lesen
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#506
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lesen is aGermanverb. It means: Schriftzeichen, Worte und Texte (mithilfe der Augen) wahrnehmen sowie (im Gehirn) verarbeiten und verstehen, sowie dies gegebenenfalls laut vorlesen Pronounced [ˈleːzn̩]. It ranks #506 in German word frequency. Often confused with Lose and lest.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈleːzn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lesen is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈleːzn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #506 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lesen, with forms such as "elsen", "leesn", and "lesenn". 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, "Lose", "lest", "less", 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 lesen, spelled L-E-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Schriftzeichen, Worte und Texte (mithilfe der Augen) wahrnehmen sowie (im Gehirn) verarbeiten und verstehen, sowie dies gegebenenfalls laut vorlesen
- 2Dinge auswählen, um sie danach aufzusammeln und zusammenzutragen
- 3Dinge in die Hand nehmen, um Schlechtes/Falsches (schlechte/falsche Früchte und Ähnliches) auszusortieren
- 4einen Lehrvortrag (Vorlesung) halten
- 5aufgezeichnete Daten von einem Träger aufnehmen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elsen,leesn,lesenn,lesne,lessen,llesen,lseen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lesen
Misspelling Variants of "lesen"
Frequency rank: #506 in German
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Nearby German words
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