leugnen
[ˈlɔɪ̯ɡnən]
The verdict
“leugnen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,586
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas abstreiten, das über einen geäußert wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-leugnen · leugnen · German
leugnen · rank #9,586 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Leopold
Nearest frequency peer: Leopold (-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 „leugnen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- langfristige
langfristige
90,418 corpus weight
- Lektüre
Lektüre
90,417 corpus weight
- Leopold
Leopold
90,416 corpus weight
- leugnen
leugnen
90,415 corpus weight
- Liechtenste…
Liechtenstein
90,413 corpus weight
- literarisch…
literarischen
90,412 corpus weight
What this shows „leugnen“ 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 | leugnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlɔɪ̯ɡnən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „leugnen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around leugnen (IPA [ˈlɔɪ̯ɡnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,586 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for leugnen, with forms such as "elugnen", "legunen", and "leugenn". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "lügen", "Lünen", "Leuten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is leugnen, spelled L-E-U-G-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas abstreiten, das über einen geäußert wurde
- 2Offenkundiges wider besseres Wissen bestreiten, als unwahr hinstellen
- 3etwas in Abrede stellen, das nach einer von demjenigen, der von „leugnen“ spricht, vorausgesetzten Lehre, Weltanschauung oder ähnlichen Überzeugung oder nach allgemeiner Anschauung existiert
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leugnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trotz aller Beweise leugnete er, die Tat begangen zu haben.
„Vor diesem Hintergrund wäre es dem Beschwerdeführer auch nicht zumutbar, seinen Glauben in Form eines Widerrufs zu leugnen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elugnen
- legunen
- leugenn
- leuggnen
- leugnenn
- leugnne
- leugnnen
- leungen
- lleugnen
- luegnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leugnen - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leugnen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).