Liebe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#309
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Liebe is aGermannoun. It means: inniges Gefühl der Zuneigung für jemanden oder für etwas Pronounced [ˈliːbə]. It ranks #309 in German word frequency. Often confused with live and Lied.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Liebe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈliːbə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Liebe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliːbə]. Corpus data places it at rank #309 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Liebe, with forms such as "ilebe", "libee", and "liebbe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "live", "Lied", "lief", 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 Liebe, spelled L-I-E-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1inniges Gefühl der Zuneigung für jemanden oder für etwas
- 2sexuell oder erotisch motivierte Neigung zu jemandem oder zu einer Sache
- 3Geschlechtsakt; Akt der körperlichen Vereinigung in Folge von [2]
- 4Liebschaft
- 5innige und gefühlsbetonte Beziehung zu einer Sache, einer Idee, einem Ziel oder Ähnlichem
- 6unter Aufbietung großer Sorgfalt und Anteilnahme
- 7Freundschaftsdienst, Gefälligkeit
- 8Mensch/Person, den man liebt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilebe,libee,liebbe,lieeb,lliebe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Liebe
Misspelling Variants of "Liebe"
Frequency rank: #309 in German
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Nearby German words
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