life
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,842
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
life is aGermannoun. It means: Leben: die Eigenschaft lebendiger Wesen, die den Toten und den anorganischen Sachen fehlt Pronounced [laɪf]. It ranks #2,842 in German word frequency. Often confused with LTE and lin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | life |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [laɪf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for life is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laɪf]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,842 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for life, with forms such as "ilfe", "lfie", and "liffe". 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, "LTE", "lin", "liv", 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 life, spelled L-I-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Leben: die Eigenschaft lebendiger Wesen, die den Toten und den anorganischen Sachen fehlt
- 2Leben: die Zeit, in der jemand lebt; persönliche Laufbahn, mit der Geburt beginnend und mit dem Tod endend
- 3Lebenszeit; persönliche Laufbahn, mit einem (bestimmten) Ereignis beginnend und mit dem Tod endend
- 4(bestimmte) Lebensart, Lebensstil
- 5das, was jemandem am wichtigsten ist
- 6Leben, besonders Menschenleben: Lebewesen, Mensch (das beziehungsweise der lebt)
- 7Lebensgeschichte: Biografie (Biographie)
- 8Laufzeit, Lebenszeit: die Zeit, die ein Gegenstand hat, bis er unbrauchbar wird
- 9Versuch, besonders ein verbleibender Versuch, der nach einem virtuellen Tod noch zur Verfügung steht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilfe,lfie,liffe,llife
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for life
Misspelling Variants of "life"
Frequency rank: #2,842 in German
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