have sex
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The verdict
“have sex” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geschlechtsverkehr haben, mit jemandem schlafen
Corpus desk
Index DE-have-sex · have sex · German
have sex · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | have sex |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „have sex“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
have sex is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Geschlechtsverkehr haben, mit jemandem schlafen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for have sex, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 have sex, spelled H-A-V-E- -S-E-X.
Definition
- 1Geschlechtsverkehr haben, mit jemandem schlafen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how have sex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We were having sex when suddenly the phone rang.
He didn’t want to have sex with her.
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.