lie
[li]
The verdict
“lie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,480) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,480
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bodensatz eines flüssigen Körpers
Corpus desk
Index DE-lie · lie · German
lie · rank #16,480 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,480
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lenker
Nearest frequency peer: Lenker (-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 „lie“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kranz
Kranz
83,524 corpus weight
- langsamen
langsamen
83,523 corpus weight
- Lenker
Lenker
83,522 corpus weight
- lie
lie
83,521 corpus weight
- linear
linear
83,520 corpus weight
- Lou
Lou
83,518 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „lie“ 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 | lie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [li] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „lie“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lie is neighbouring look-alikes ("LP", "lo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [li]. Frequency #16,480 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Bodensatz eines flüssigen Körpers".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is lie, spelled L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Bodensatz eines flüssigen Körpers
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vin est clair et bon jusqu'à la lie.
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).