This is an initial list of false cognates and false friends between Luxembourgish and English. They therefore look or sound similar but have different meanings.
| Luxembourgish term | English term
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| Aangel (“sting”) Aangel (“fishing rod”) |
angel
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| aarm (“poor”) | arm (unless it is a dialectal adjective, that is related to the noun armth) |
| Aart (“type, sort, kind”) | art
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| alleg (“all these”) | allege
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| allowes (“every evening”) | allows (3. pers. sing. of allow)
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| also (“therefore”) | also |
| apaart (“particularly”) | apart
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| Ass (“ace”) | ass
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| baang (“frightened”) | bang
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| Bad (“bath”) | bad
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| Bänk (“bench”) | bank
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| batter (“bitter”) | batter
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| Boot (“boat”) | boot
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| Bottel (“hawthorn”) | bottle
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| Brooch (“fallow”) | brooch
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| Damp (“steam”) | damp
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| Deel (“part”) | deal
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| Dill (“plank, board”) | dill
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| drop (“after, on top of”) | drop |
| fad (“bland, tasteless”) | fad
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| Far (“fern”) | far
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| fir (“for”) | fir |
| Fischi (“scarf”) | fishy ("dubious")
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| Flipper (“pinball”) | flipper |
| Floss (“river”) Floss (“flipper, fin”) |
floss
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| fort (“away”) | fort
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| gaangs (“immediately”) | gangs
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| Geess (“goat”) | geese
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| haart (“hard”) | heart |
| Här (“mister”) | hair |
| Heed (“heath, heather”) Heed (“pagan”) |
heed
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| Heel (“hoe”) | heel
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| hell (“light, bright”) | hell
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| Kamell (“sweet, confection”) | camel |
| Kapitel (“chapter”) | capital
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| kill (“fresh”) | kill
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| Sënd (“sin”) | send
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| sinn (“to be”) | sin
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