Harke
[ˈhaʁkə]
The verdict
“Harke” is an uncommon German word, ranked #64,337 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,337
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gartengerät zum Ebnen von Beeten und Auflockern des Erdbodens; langer Stiel mit gabel- oder fingerförmigem Endstück zum Zusammenkehren von Laub oder anderem losem, typischerweise grobem Zeug, Garte...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Harke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʁkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Harke” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Harke is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʁkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,337 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gartengerät zum Ebnen von Beeten und Auflockern des Erdbodens; langer Stiel mit gabel- oder fingerförmigem Endstück zum Zusammenkehren von Laub oder anderem losem, typischerweise grobem Zeug, Garte...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Harke, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Harke, spelled H-A-R-K-E.
Definition
- 1Gartengerät zum Ebnen von Beeten und Auflockern des Erdbodens; langer Stiel mit gabel- oder fingerförmigem Endstück zum Zusammenkehren von Laub oder anderem losem, typischerweise grobem Zeug, Gartenabfall
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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 “Harke”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-R-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaʁkə] (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.