Lob
[loːp]
The verdict
“Lob” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #4,907 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,907
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Anerkennung von Leistungen oder Verhaltensweisen durch sprachliche oder körpersprachliche Ausdrucksmittel
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lob |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [loːp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lob” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lob is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [loːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,907 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Anerkennung von Leistungen oder Verhaltensweisen durch sprachliche oder körpersprachliche Ausdrucksmittel".
Lob doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "Lu", "Lv", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Lob, spelled L-O-B.
Definition
- 1Anerkennung von Leistungen oder Verhaltensweisen durch sprachliche oder körpersprachliche Ausdrucksmittel
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Using “Lob”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-O-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [loːp] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “LP” - see the side-by-side comparison. Lob vs LP
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.