Hefe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,250
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Hefe is aGermannoun. It means: einzelliger Pilz (zumeist Saccharomycetaceae aber auch Pichiaceae und Incertae sedis), der sich sexuell und/oder asexuell zumeist durch Sprossung, aber auch durch Spaltung (Schizosaccharomycetaceae... Pronounced [ˈheːfə]. Often confused with HF and her.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hefe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈheːfə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hefe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈheːfə]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,250 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Hefe, with forms such as "ehfe", "heef", and "heffe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HF", "her", "hey", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Hefe, spelled H-E-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einzelliger Pilz (zumeist Saccharomycetaceae aber auch Pichiaceae und Incertae sedis), der sich sexuell und/oder asexuell zumeist durch Sprossung, aber auch durch Spaltung (Schizosaccharomycetaceae), vermehrt
- 2eine mit den unter [1] beschriebenen Pilzen durchsetzte Substanz, die verwendet wird als ein Gärprozess einleitendes Mittel bei der Herstellung bestimmter (alkoholischer) Getränke und als dem Teig beigegebener Stoff, der das Aufgehen/Treiben von Teig für bestimmte Backwaren bewirkt
- 3als übel, verkommen geltender Teil einer Bevölkerungsgruppe
- 4dasjenige Element, das etwas antreibt, beschleunigt, vorwärtstreibt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehfe,heef,heffe,hfee,hhefe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Hefe
Misspelling Variants of "Hefe"
Frequency rank: #19,250 in German
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