Lurch
[lʊʁç]
The verdict
“Lurch” is uncommon German (frequency #74,839 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,839
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amphibium
Corpus desk
Index DE-lurch · Lurch · German
Lurch · rank #74,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,839
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lupenreinen
Nearest frequency peer: lupenreinen (-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 „Lurch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- lupenreinen
lupenreinen
25,163 corpus weight
- Lurch
Lurch
25,162 corpus weight
- lächelnden
lächelnden
25,161 corpus weight
- Lärms
Lärms
25,160 corpus weight
- Lösungswege
Lösungswege
25,159 corpus weight
- Lüftungsanl…
Lüftungsanlage
25,158 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Lurch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lurch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lʊʁç] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lurch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lurch is uncommon German at frequency #74,839 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lʊʁç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amphibium".
Lurch has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Lurch, spelled L-U-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1Amphibium
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lurch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Lurch des Jahres 2012 ist die Erdkröte.
„Der Wolf (der Wolf),
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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