Libelle
[liˈbɛlə]
The verdict
“Libelle” is uncommon German (frequency #50,673 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,673
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter einer Ordnung von am Wasser lebenden, stabförmigen Raubinsekten mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln (Odonata)
Corpus desk
Index DE-libelle · Libelle · German
Libelle · rank #50,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH libretto
Nearest frequency peer: libretto (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Libelle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Leopoldstadt
Leopoldstadt
49,332 corpus weight
- Lesbos
Lesbos
49,331 corpus weight
- Libelle
Libelle
49,328 corpus weight
- libretto
libretto
49,327 corpus weight
- libro
libro
49,326 corpus weight
- Lieblingsbu…
Lieblingsbuch
49,325 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Libelle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Libelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liˈbɛlə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Libelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Libelle is uncommon German at frequency #50,673 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [liˈbɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Libelle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Libelle, spelled L-I-B-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vertreter einer Ordnung von am Wasser lebenden, stabförmigen Raubinsekten mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln (Odonata)
- 2eine Art gebogene Haarspange
- 3Teil von bestimmten Messinstrumenten bestehend aus einem mit einer Flüssigkeit und einer Luft- beziehungsweise Gasblase gefüllten Röhrchen aus Glas oder Kunststoff, mit dem die horizontale beziehungsweise vertikale Lage eines Gegenstandes überprüft wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Libelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Sommer gibt es bei uns am Teich viele schöne Libellen.
„Vögel sangen in den alten Bäumen, ein Specht klopfte emsig, und über dem silbernen See tanzten flirrend Libellen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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