locare
The verdict
“locare” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — jemanden oder etwas an einen bestimmten Ort bringen; setzen, stellen, legen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locare |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “locare” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for locare is 6 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for locare in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 locare, spelled L-O-C-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden oder etwas an einen bestimmten Ort bringen; setzen, stellen, legen
- 2etwas an einem bestimmten Ort aufbauen; aufstellen, aufrichten, errichten, aufschlagen, gründen
- 3etwas in einem Satz einen bestimmten Ort zuweisen; stellen
- 4stationieren, einquartieren
- 5in bestimmte Umstände bringen; stellen, setzen; beruhen auf
- 6etwas (eine Arbeit) gegen Bezahlung vergeben; vergeben, verdingen, ausschreiben
- 7ein gewinnbringendes Privileg aufgrund eines Vertrags verleihen; vermieten, verpachten
- 8verheiraten
- 9jemanden oder seine Arbeit gegen Bezahlung verleihen; verdingen, vermieten
- 10Land oder Gut gegen Bezahlung verleihen; vermieten, verpachten
- 11etwas gegen Zinsen leihen, ausleihen
- 12investieren
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “locare”
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- The one correct German spelling is L-O-C-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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