hämisch
[ˈhɛːmɪʃ]
The verdict
“hämisch” is an uncommon German word, ranked #53,790 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #53,790
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schadenfroh, gehässig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hämisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhɛːmɪʃ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hämisch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hämisch is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɛːmɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,790 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "schadenfroh, gehässig".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hämisch, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is hämisch, spelled H-Ä-M-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1schadenfroh, gehässig
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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Using “hämisch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-Ä-M-I-S-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhɛːmɪʃ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.