Liane
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,877
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Liane is aGermannoun. It means: verholzende Pflanze, die an anderen Pflanzen oder senkrechten Strukturen emporwächst, da sie sich nicht selbst tragen kann Pronounced [liˈaːnə]. Often confused with lin and lie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Liane |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liˈaːnə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Liane is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liˈaːnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,877 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "verholzende Pflanze, die an anderen Pflanzen oder senkrechten Strukturen emporwächst, da sie sich nicht selbst tragen kann".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Liane, with forms such as "ilane", "lianne", and "linae". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lin", "lie", "live", 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 Liane, spelled L-I-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1verholzende Pflanze, die an anderen Pflanzen oder senkrechten Strukturen emporwächst, da sie sich nicht selbst tragen kann
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilane,lianne,linae,lliane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Liane
Misspelling Variants of "Liane"
Frequency rank: #38,877 in German
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