lol
[lɔl]
The verdict
“lol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,266) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,266
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kürzel, das ausdrückt, dass man laut lacht beziehungsweise etwas sehr lustig findet
Corpus desk
Index DE-lol · lol · German
lol · rank #3,266 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,266
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH las
Nearest frequency peer: las (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „lol“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Konflikt
Konflikt
96,738 corpus weight
- Kooperation
Kooperation
96,737 corpus weight
- las
las
96,736 corpus weight
- lol
lol
96,735 corpus weight
- lächerlich
lächerlich
96,734 corpus weight
- mittleren
mittleren
96,733 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „lol“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | lol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [lɔl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „lol“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lol is neighbouring look-alikes ("LP", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [lɔl]. Frequency #3,266 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Kürzel, das ausdrückt, dass man laut lacht beziehungsweise etwas sehr lustig findet".
lol 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is lol, spelled L-O-L.
Definition
- 1Kürzel, das ausdrückt, dass man laut lacht beziehungsweise etwas sehr lustig findet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
lol, das Bild rockt!
lol, wie sieht das denn aus.
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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