lys
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The verdict
“lys” is uncommon German (frequency #75,939 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,939
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hell
Corpus desk
Index DE-lys · lys · German
lys · rank #75,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,939
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH länderübergre…
Nearest frequency peer: länderübergreifende (+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 „lys“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lottogewinn
Lottogewinn
24,067 corpus weight
- Luftmatratze
Luftmatratze
24,064 corpus weight
- lys
lys
24,062 corpus weight
- länderüberg…
länderübergreifende
24,061 corpus weight
- Löss
Löss
24,060 corpus weight
- Lötkolben
Lötkolben
24,059 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lys“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lys |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lys“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lys is uncommon German at frequency #75,939 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hell".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lys, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is lys, spelled L-Y-S.
Definition
- 1hell
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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