lüstern
[ˈlʏstɐn]
The verdict
“lüstern” is uncommon German (frequency #97,348 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,348
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - begierig nach etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-lustern · lüstern · German
lüstern · rank #97,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lügde
Nearest frequency peer: Lügde (-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 „lüstern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- lustvollen
lustvollen
2,658 corpus weight
- Lädchen
Lädchen
2,657 corpus weight
- Ländchen
Ländchen
2,656 corpus weight
- Lärmpegel
Lärmpegel
2,655 corpus weight
- Lügde
Lügde
2,654 corpus weight
- lüstern
lüstern
2,653 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lüstern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lüstern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈlʏstɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lüstern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lüstern is uncommon German at frequency #97,348 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈlʏstɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lüstern, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is lüstern, spelled L-Ü-S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1begierig nach etwas
- 2begierig nach sexuellen Handlungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lüstern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Also: die Frau ist naschhaft, immer lüstern nach Sensationen und zu Sinnlichkeit aufgelegt, der Grausamkeit nicht abgeneigt, hysterisch, begeisterte Lügnerin, eifersüchtig noch auf den Mann, den sie nicht mehr liebt, mäßig begabt im Geiste und für theoretische und zarte Probleme gänzlich ohne Interesse (nur Neulinge langweilen sie damit, Erfahrenere gehe…
„Lüstern nach Erfolg bei den Frauen und stets geneigt, eine flüchtige Grille wie eine ernste Leidenschaft anzusehen, brauchte er nur in die Hände gewisser Charaktere zu fallen, um zu den äußersten Unbesonnenheiten verlockt zu werden.“
Antonyms
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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