lor
[lor]
The verdict
“lor” is uncommon German (frequency #89,242 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,242
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - [1] Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Genitiv-Dativ: ihnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lor · lor · German
lor · rank #89,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,242
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH logistischer
Nearest frequency peer: logistischer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lor”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Lippspringe
Lippspringe
10,764 corpus weight
- loci
loci
10,761 corpus weight
- logistischer
logistischer
10,760 corpus weight
- lor
lor
10,759 corpus weight
- Luftfilter
Luftfilter
10,756 corpus weight
- Lungenerkra…
Lungenerkrankungen
10,753 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lor” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [lor] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “lor” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
lor is uncommon German at frequency #89,242 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [lor]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
lor doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is lor, spelled L-O-R.
Definition
- 1[1] Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Genitiv-Dativ: ihnen
- 2[2] Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Maskulinum im Genitiv-Dativ: ihnen
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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