Loop
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,681
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Loop is aGermannoun. It means: Schal aus Wolle oder Stoff in Form eines Schlauches, den man mehrfach um den Hals schlingen kann Pronounced [luːp]. Often confused with LP and Los.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Loop |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [luːp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Loop is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [luːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,681 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Loop, with forms such as "lloop", "loopp", and "lop". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "Los", "low", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Loop, spelled L-O-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Schal aus Wolle oder Stoff in Form eines Schlauches, den man mehrfach um den Hals schlingen kann
- 2geschlossener Rohrkreislauf, in dem kerntechnische Versuche durchgeführt werden
- 3Logikkonstrukt in Programmiersprachen, das häufige Wiederholungen von Programmsequenzen ermöglicht
- 4kurze über ein technisches Konstrukt mehrfach wiederholte Klangfolge
- 5Sprungfigur beim Eiskunstlauf
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lloop,loopp,lop,lopo,olop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Loop
Misspelling Variants of "Loop"
Frequency rank: #21,681 in German
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Nearby German words
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