Luca
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The verdict
“Luca” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,944) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,944
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - italienischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-luca · Luca · German
Luca · rank #9,944 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,944
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH losgehen
Nearest frequency peer: losgehen (-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 „Luca“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ladies
ladies
90,060 corpus weight
- Lappen
Lappen
90,059 corpus weight
- losgehen
losgehen
90,058 corpus weight
- Luca
Luca
90,057 corpus weight
- Luke
Luke
90,056 corpus weight
- lustigen
lustigen
90,055 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Luca“ 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 | Luca |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Luca“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Luca is neighbouring look-alikes ("lud", "Lux", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #9,944 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "italienischer männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Luca, with forms such as "lcua", "lluca", and "luac". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lud", "Lux", "luz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Luca, spelled L-U-C-A.
Definition
- 1italienischer männlicher Vorname
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcua
- lluca
- luac
- ulca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Luca - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Luca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).