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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „loom“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for loom
PropertyValue
Headwordloom
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#83,035
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „loom“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).loomfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Lohns“ (#83,034), „Louisville“ (#83,036), „Lobeshymnen“ (#83,033). Unter 2,640 „L“-Lemmata liegt „loom“ bei #83,035. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    der Webstuhl, die Webmaschine

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how loom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "loom"?
"loom" is spelled L-O-O-M. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "loom" mean?
As a noun, "loom" means: der Webstuhl, die Webmaschine
How do you pronounce "loom"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "loom" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loom", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list