Harmonika
[haʁˈmoːnika]
The verdict
“Harmonika” is uncommon German (frequency #58,854 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,854
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Musikinstrument, bei dem Töne durch den Luftzug erzeugt werden, der durch das Ziehen/Drücken eines Balgs oder durch Blasen/Einziehen der Luft entsteht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Harmonika |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haʁˈmoːnika] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Harmonika” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Harmonika is uncommon German at frequency #58,854 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [haʁˈmoːnika]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Harmonika in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Harmonika, spelled H-A-R-M-O-N-I-K-A.
Definition
- 1Musikinstrument, bei dem Töne durch den Luftzug erzeugt werden, der durch das Ziehen/Drücken eines Balgs oder durch Blasen/Einziehen der Luft entsteht
- 2Kurzwort für Ziehharmonika
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 “Harmonika”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-R-M-O-N-I-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [haʁˈmoːnika] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.