habit
[a.bi]
The verdict
“habit” is uncommon German (frequency #81,640 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,640
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bekleidung, Gewand, Kleidung
Corpus desk
Index DE-habit · habit · German
habit · rank #81,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,640
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Günstling
Nearest frequency peer: Günstling (-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 “habit”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Gärtnerin
Gärtnerin
18,364 corpus weight
- gönnst
gönnst
18,363 corpus weight
- Günstling
Günstling
18,362 corpus weight
- habit
habit
18,361 corpus weight
- Haftzeit
Haftzeit
18,360 corpus weight
- Hallig
Hallig
18,359 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “habit” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [a.bi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “habit” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
habit is uncommon German at frequency #81,640 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [a.bi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bekleidung, Gewand, Kleidung".
No misspelling variants are generated for habit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 habit, spelled H-A-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Bekleidung, Gewand, Kleidung
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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