lia
[ˈlia]
The verdict
“lia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,300) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,300
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possessivpronomen der 3. Person Plural, ‚ihr‘, ‚ihre‘, alle Genera
Corpus desk
Index DE-lia · lia · German
lia · rank #35,300 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,300
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Leoparden
Nearest frequency peer: Leoparden (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „lia“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Leibwächter
Leibwächter
64,705 corpus weight
- Leif
Leif
64,704 corpus weight
- Leoparden
Leoparden
64,702 corpus weight
- lia
lia
64,701 corpus weight
- liebstes
liebstes
64,700 corpus weight
- lifetime
lifetime
64,699 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „lia“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | lia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈlia] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „lia“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lia is neighbouring look-alikes ("LP", "lo", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ˈlia]. Frequency #35,300 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Possessivpronomen der 3. Person Plural, ‚ihr‘, ‚ihre‘, alle Genera".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "lo", "ln", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 lia, spelled L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Possessivpronomen der 3. Person Plural, ‚ihr‘, ‚ihre‘, alle Genera
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„[…] me salutis […] Idisti ek tri landi en Nürnberg. […] Ja kelka minuti pos lia arivo en la hoteleto ni l'unesma foyo renkontris por experiencar l'unesma agreabla Ido-rondo en Nürnberg.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).