Luckenwalde
[ˌlʊkn̩ˈvaldə]
The verdict
“Luckenwalde” is uncommon German (frequency #50,684 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,684
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-luckenwalde · Luckenwalde · German
Luckenwalde · rank #50,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,684
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,953
- PHOTO-FINISH Loreley
Nearest frequency peer: Loreley (-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 “Luckenwalde”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Lizenzgebüh…
Lizenzgebühren
49,320 corpus weight
- lobende
lobende
49,319 corpus weight
- Loreley
Loreley
49,318 corpus weight
- Luckenwalde
Luckenwalde
49,317 corpus weight
- Luftqualität
Luftqualität
49,316 corpus weight
- Lufttempera…
Lufttemperatur
49,315 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Luckenwalde” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luckenwalde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˌlʊkn̩ˈvaldə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Luckenwalde” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Luckenwalde is uncommon German at frequency #50,684 among 30,953 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˌlʊkn̩ˈvaldə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland".
Zero misspellings are on record for Luckenwalde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Luckenwalde, spelled L-U-C-K-E-N-W-A-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.