habt
[haːpt]
The verdict
“habt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #701
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-habt · habt · German
habt · rank #701 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #701
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hören
Nearest frequency peer: hören (+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 “habt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- falls
falls
99,303 corpus weight
- gleichzeitig
gleichzeitig
99,302 corpus weight
- habt
habt
99,300 corpus weight
- hören
hören
99,299 corpus weight
- ihres
ihres
99,298 corpus weight
- Köln
Köln
99,297 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “habt” 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 | habt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [haːpt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “habt” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around habt (IPA [haːpt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #701 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for habt, with forms such as "ahbt", "habbt", and "habtt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hat", "Hut", "hot", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is habt, spelled H-A-B-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs haben
- 22. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs haben
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahbt
- habbt
- habtt
- hatb
- hbat
- hhabt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "habt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.