lieu
[ljuː]
The verdict
“lieu” is uncommon German (frequency #90,577 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,577
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Platz, die Stelle, die Stätte
Corpus desk
Index DE-lieu · lieu · German
lieu · rank #90,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,577
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lighthouse
Nearest frequency peer: lighthouse (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „lieu“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- liebhaben
liebhaben
9,428 corpus weight
- lieu
lieu
9,424 corpus weight
- lighthouse
lighthouse
9,423 corpus weight
- Limitierung
Limitierung
9,422 corpus weight
- Literaturan…
Literaturangaben
9,421 corpus weight
- lizard
lizard
9,420 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lieu“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ljuː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lieu“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lieu is uncommon German at frequency #90,577 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ljuː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Platz, die Stelle, die Stätte".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lieu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is lieu, spelled L-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1der Platz, die Stelle, die Stätte
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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