loan
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The verdict
“loan” is uncommon German (frequency #69,475 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,475
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einer Bank oder einer Person geliehenes Geld
Corpus desk
Index DE-loan · loan · German
loan · rank #69,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,475
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lizenzierte
Nearest frequency peer: lizenzierte (-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 „loan“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lieblingssp…
Lieblingsspiel
30,530 corpus weight
- lizenzierte
lizenzierte
30,527 corpus weight
- loan
loan
30,526 corpus weight
- Lungau
Lungau
30,524 corpus weight
- lyrischer
lyrischer
30,523 corpus weight
- Maat
Maat
30,522 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „loan“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „loan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
loan is uncommon German at frequency #69,475 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for loan, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is loan, spelled L-O-A-N.
Definition
- 1von einer Bank oder einer Person geliehenes Geld
- 2etwas Aus- oder Verliehenes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I could hardly expect to get a loan from this bank without having a cost flow forecast.
The dinosaur is a loan to a museum.
Synonyms
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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