Lichtbogen
[ˈlɪçtˌboːɡn̩]
The verdict
“Lichtbogen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #91,891 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #91,891
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - leuchtende elektrische Entladung zwischen zwei Elektroden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lichtbogen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɪçtˌboːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lichtbogen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lichtbogen is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɪçtˌboːɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,891 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "leuchtende elektrische Entladung zwischen zwei Elektroden".
Lichtbogen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is Lichtbogen, spelled L-I-C-H-T-B-O-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1leuchtende elektrische Entladung zwischen zwei Elektroden
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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Using “Lichtbogen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-C-H-T-B-O-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlɪçtˌboːɡn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.