LTE
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The verdict
“LTE” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,590) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,590
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long Term Evolution, ein Mobilfunkstandard (4. Generation)
Corpus desk
Index DE-lte · LTE · German
LTE · rank #9,590 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,590
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH literarischen
Nearest frequency peer: literarischen (-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 „LTE“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Liechtenste…
Liechtenstein
90,413 corpus weight
- literarisch…
literarischen
90,412 corpus weight
- LTE
LTE
90,411 corpus weight
- maps
maps
90,410 corpus weight
- Maschinenbau
Maschinenbau
90,409 corpus weight
- Mc
Mc
90,408 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „LTE“ 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 | LTE |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „LTE“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LTE is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Lv", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #9,590 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Long Term Evolution, ein Mobilfunkstandard (4. Generation)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for LTE, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Lv", "LW", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is LTE, spelled L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Long Term Evolution, ein Mobilfunkstandard (4. Generation)
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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