hämisch
[ˈhɛːmɪʃ]
The verdict
“hämisch” is uncommon German (frequency #53,790 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,790
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schadenfroh, gehässig
Corpus desk
Index DE-hamisch · hämisch · German
hämisch · rank #53,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,790
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH husky
Nearest frequency peer: husky (-2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „hämisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hos
hos
46,217 corpus weight
- humble
humble
46,214 corpus weight
- husky
husky
46,213 corpus weight
- hämisch
hämisch
46,211 corpus weight
- identischer
identischer
46,207 corpus weight
- IgA
IgA
46,206 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hämisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hämisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hämisch is uncommon German at frequency #53,790 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈhɛːmɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hämisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er lachte ziemlich hämisch.“
„So sehr verlang’ ich nach dem schönen Lichte der Augen, die mich trügerisch entseelen, daß ich, droht mir auch Tod und hämisch Quälen, erneut den Blick voll Sehnsucht darauf richte.“
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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