Libelle
[liˈbɛlə]
The verdict
“Libelle” is uncommon German (frequency #50,673 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,673
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vertreter einer Ordnung von am Wasser lebenden, stabförmigen Raubinsekten mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln (Odonata)
| 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) |
Where “Libelle” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Libelle is uncommon German at frequency #50,673 among 30,953 “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
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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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Using “Libelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-B-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.