lüg
[lyːk]
The verdict
“lüg” is uncommon German (frequency #66,459 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,459
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lügen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lug · lüg · German
lüg · rank #66,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,459
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lustgarten
Nearest frequency peer: Lustgarten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „lüg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lublin
Lublin
33,545 corpus weight
- Luftzug
Luftzug
33,544 corpus weight
- Lustgarten
Lustgarten
33,543 corpus weight
- lüg
lüg
33,542 corpus weight
- Macao
Macao
33,541 corpus weight
- Mahnwachen
Mahnwachen
33,540 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lüg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lüg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [lyːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lüg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lüg is uncommon German at frequency #66,459 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [lyːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lügen".
No misspelling variants are generated for lüg in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is lüg, spelled L-Ü-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lügen
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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