haute couture
[ot kutyʁ]
The verdict
“haute couture” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Haute Couture, die Couture
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haute couture |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ot kutyʁ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haute couture” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for haute couture is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ot kutyʁ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Haute Couture, die Couture".
No generated misspelling entries exist for haute couture in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is haute couture, spelled H-A-U-T-E- -C-O-U-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1die Haute Couture, die Couture
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “haute couture”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-U-T-E- -C-O-U-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ot kutyʁ] (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
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.