Harn
[haʁn]
The verdict
“Harn” is uncommon German (frequency #69,331 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,331
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - flüssige Ausscheidung der Blase beziehungsweise der Nieren bei Menschen und verwandten Säugetieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-harn · Harn · German
Harn · rank #69,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,331
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hanteln
Nearest frequency peer: Hanteln (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Harn”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- handlich
handlich
30,675 corpus weight
- handlungsun…
handlungsunfähig
30,673 corpus weight
- Handstand
Handstand
30,672 corpus weight
- Hanteln
Hanteln
30,671 corpus weight
- Harn
Harn
30,670 corpus weight
- Harzes
Harzes
30,668 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Harn” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Harn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haʁn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Harn” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Harn is uncommon German at frequency #69,331 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [haʁn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "flüssige Ausscheidung der Blase beziehungsweise der Nieren bei Menschen und verwandten Säugetieren".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Harn in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Harn, spelled H-A-R-N.
Definition
- 1flüssige Ausscheidung der Blase beziehungsweise der Nieren bei Menschen und verwandten Säugetieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Harn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Farbe von Harn ist gelb.
„Unbemerkt war aber Tschang Dschi-djiä nachgeschlichen und versetzte Jing Bo-djau einen so kräftigen Schub, daß er vornüber hinstürzte und beinahe mit dem ganzen Gesicht in den Harn gefallen wäre.“
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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