Hawaii
[haˈvaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Hawaii” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,296
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - im Pazifik gelegene Inselgruppe, Bundesstaat der USA
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hawaii |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [haˈvaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hawaii” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Hawaii (IPA [haˈvaɪ̯]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,296 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hawaii, with forms such as "ahwaii", "haawii", and "hawai". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Hawaii, spelled H-A-W-A-I-I.
Definition
- 1im Pazifik gelegene Inselgruppe, Bundesstaat der USA
- 2im Pazifik gelegene Insel, die größte der Hawaii-Inseln
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahwaii,haawii,hawai,hawiai,hawwaii,hhawaii,hwaaii
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hawaii - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Hawaii”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-W-A-I-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [haˈvaɪ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.