Haut
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,391
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Haut is aGermannoun. It means: größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunterliegenden Gewebes, Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient Pronounced [haʊ̯t]. It ranks #1,391 in German word frequency. Often confused with Hut and hot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Haut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haʊ̯t] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Haut is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [haʊ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,391 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Haut, with forms such as "ahut", "hatu", and "hautt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hut", "hot", "Hit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Haut, spelled H-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunterliegenden Gewebes, Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient
- 2Rohmaterial für Leder
- 3der Haut^([1]) ähnelnde Schicht bei Lebensmitteln und Flüssigkeiten
- 4äußere Schicht zum Schutz oder zur optischen Verbesserung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahut,hatu,hautt,hhaut,huat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Haut
Misspelling Variants of "Haut"
Frequency rank: #1,391 in German
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