ehr
[eːɐ̯]
The verdict
“ehr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,213) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,213
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ehren
Corpus desk
Index DE-ehr · ehr · German
ehr · rank #18,213 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,213
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH education
Nearest frequency peer: education (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ehr”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Drehung
Drehung
81,791 corpus weight
- DSGVO
DSGVO
81,790 corpus weight
- education
education
81,789 corpus weight
- ehr
ehr
81,788 corpus weight
- Einfachheit
Einfachheit
81,787 corpus weight
- Einladungen
Einladungen
81,786 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ehr” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ehr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ehr” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ehr is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [eːɐ̯]. Frequency #18,213 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ehren".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ehr, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
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 ehr, spelled E-H-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ehren
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "ehr" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "es". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #18,213 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.