hebst
[heːpst]
The verdict
“hebst” is uncommon German (frequency #78,089 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,089
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs heben
Corpus desk
Index DE-hebst · hebst · German
hebst · rank #78,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,089
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hechte
Nearest frequency peer: Hechte (+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 „hebst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hatice
Hatice
21,917 corpus weight
- Hauptinsel
Hauptinsel
21,915 corpus weight
- Hautausschl…
Hautausschlag
21,914 corpus weight
- hebst
hebst
21,912 corpus weight
- Hechte
Hechte
21,911 corpus weight
- Heimtücke
Heimtücke
21,907 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hebst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hebst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [heːpst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hebst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hebst is uncommon German at frequency #78,089 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [heːpst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs heben".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hebst, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 hebst, spelled H-E-B-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs heben
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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