FH
[ɛfˈhaː]
The verdict
“FH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,282) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,282
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fachhochschule
Corpus desk
Index DE-fh · FH · German
FH · rank #10,282 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,282
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feuchtigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Feuchtigkeit (-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 „FH“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- feat
feat
89,722 corpus weight
- Festnahme
Festnahme
89,721 corpus weight
- Feuchtigkeit
Feuchtigkeit
89,720 corpus weight
- FH
FH
89,719 corpus weight
- Fraktionen
Fraktionen
89,718 corpus weight
- francis
francis
89,717 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „FH“ 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 | FH |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛfˈhaː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „FH“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FH is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "fl", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɛfˈhaː]. Frequency #10,282 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fachhochschule".
FH doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "fl", "FW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is FH, spelled F-H.
Definition
- 1Fachhochschule
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bist Du morgen in der FH? — Nein ich habe morgen keine Vorlesung.
Synonyms
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.