loom
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The verdict
“loom” is uncommon German (frequency #83,035 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,035
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Webstuhl, die Webmaschine
Corpus desk
Index DE-loom · loom · German
loom · rank #83,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,035
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lohns
Nearest frequency peer: Lohns (-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 „loom“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- litauisch
litauisch
16,969 corpus weight
- Lobeshymnen
Lobeshymnen
16,968 corpus weight
- Lohns
Lohns
16,967 corpus weight
- loom
loom
16,966 corpus weight
- Louisville
Louisville
16,965 corpus weight
- Lukes
Lukes
16,964 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „loom“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „loom“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
loom is uncommon German at frequency #83,035 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Webstuhl, die Webmaschine".
loom has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is loom, spelled L-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1der Webstuhl, die Webmaschine
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They placed two weaving-looms, and began to do as if they were working, but they had not the least thing on the looms.
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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