ehm
[ɛɦm]
The verdict
“ehm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,306) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,306
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zur Überbrückung einer Denkpause eingesetzter Laut
Corpus desk
Index DE-ehm · ehm · German
ehm · rank #24,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH effects
Nearest frequency peer: effects (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „ehm“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Duale
Duale
75,698 corpus weight
- dämlichen
dämlichen
75,697 corpus weight
- effects
effects
75,696 corpus weight
- ehm
ehm
75,695 corpus weight
- Einfall
Einfall
75,694 corpus weight
- einflussrei…
einflussreiche
75,693 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ehm“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ehm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ɛɦm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ehm“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ehm is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ɛɦm]. Frequency #24,306 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "zur Überbrückung einer Denkpause eingesetzter Laut".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ehm, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ehm, spelled E-H-M.
Definition
- 1zur Überbrückung einer Denkpause eingesetzter Laut
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ehm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dobrý … ehm… den.“
„Ehm… to je právě ten… ehm… problém.“
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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