hearing

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The verdict

“hearing” is uncommon German (frequency #70,368 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,368
frequency rank, German
3,372
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Fähigkeit zu Hören

Corpus desk

Index DE-hearing · hearing · German

hearing · rank #70,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,368
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,372
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hausverwalter

Nearest frequency peer: Hausverwalter (-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 „hearing“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hearing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for hearing
PropertyValue
Headwordhearing
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,368
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „hearing“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.hearingfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Hausverwalter“ (#70,367), „Heftes“ (#70,369), „Hauptzweck“ (#70,366). Unter 3,372 „H“-Lemmata liegt „hearing“ bei #70,368. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hearing is uncommon German at frequency #70,368 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for hearing in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 hearing, spelled H-E-A-R-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Fähigkeit zu Hören
  2. 2
    die Ausübung dieser Fähigkeit
  3. 3
    Bereich, in dem jemand etwas hören kann
  4. 4
    eine Möglichkeit seine Meinung zu präsentieren
  5. 5
    Verhandlung oder Anhörung vor Gericht

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hearing"?
"hearing" is spelled H-E-A-R-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "hearing" mean?
As a noun, "hearing" means: die Fähigkeit zu Hören
How do you pronounce "hearing"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hearing" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hearing", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

harvest#70,363halbtot#70,352Hofdame#70,395Häupter#70,403

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list