Harmonium
[haʁˈmoːni̯ʊm]
The verdict
“Harmonium” is an uncommon German word, ranked #84,080 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,080
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tasteninstrument, bei dem der Ton durch verschieden lange Durchschlagzungen erzeugt wird, die von Luft umströmt in Schwingung versetzt werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Harmonium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haʁˈmoːni̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Harmonium” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Harmonium is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [haʁˈmoːni̯ʊm]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,080 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tasteninstrument, bei dem der Ton durch verschieden lange Durchschlagzungen erzeugt wird, die von Luft umströmt in Schwingung versetzt werden".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Harmonium, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Harmonium, spelled H-A-R-M-O-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Tasteninstrument, bei dem der Ton durch verschieden lange Durchschlagzungen erzeugt wird, die von Luft umströmt in Schwingung versetzt werden
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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 “Harmonium”
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-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [haʁˈmoːni̯ʊm] (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.