Havarie
[havaˈʁiː]
The verdict
“Havarie” is uncommon German (frequency #50,545 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,545
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großes Schadensereignis (speziell im Verkehrswesen) wie Transportmittelunfall oder Güterschaden
Corpus desk
Index DE-havarie · Havarie · German
Havarie · rank #50,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,545
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hautarzt
Nearest frequency peer: Hautarzt (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Havarie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hauseingang
Hauseingang
49,459 corpus weight
- Hautarzt
Hautarzt
49,457 corpus weight
- Havarie
Havarie
49,456 corpus weight
- heads
heads
49,455 corpus weight
- Heimatverei…
Heimatvereins
49,453 corpus weight
- Hektoliter
Hektoliter
49,452 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Havarie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Havarie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [havaˈʁiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Havarie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Havarie is uncommon German at frequency #50,545 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [havaˈʁiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Havarie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Havarie, spelled H-A-V-A-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1großes Schadensereignis (speziell im Verkehrswesen) wie Transportmittelunfall oder Güterschaden
- 2Schiffsunglück, Schiffsunfall (Schiffbruch)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Havarie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei dem Atomunfall des Kraftwerks von Tschernobyl war von einer Havarie die Rede.
„Das ermöglichte bereits eine billige Fertigung und sollte sich auch in den Aufwendungen für die normale Wartung und in den geringeren Reparaturkosten nach einer Havarie positiv niederschlagen.“
Synonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).