liegst
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,624
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
liegst is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs liegen Pronounced [liːkst]. Often confused with lies and list.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liegst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [liːkst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for liegst is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liːkst]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,624 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs liegen".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for liegst, with forms such as "ilegst", "leigst", and "lieggst". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "lies", "list", "liegt", 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 liegst, spelled L-I-E-G-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs liegen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilegst,leigst,lieggst,liegsst,liegstt,liegts,liesgt,ligest,lliegst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for liegst
Misspelling Variants of "liegst"
Frequency rank: #14,624 in German
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Nearby German words
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