heiße Luft
[ˌhaɪ̯sə ˈlʊft]
The verdict
“heiße Luft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aussage (seltener Verhalten), die nicht so wichtig ist, wie der Verursacher meint, die nicht besonders ernst genommen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-hei-e-luft · heiße Luft · German
heiße Luft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | heiße Luft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌhaɪ̯sə ˈlʊft] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „heiße Luft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
heiße Luft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˌhaɪ̯sə ˈlʊft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aussage (seltener Verhalten), die nicht so wichtig ist, wie der Verursacher meint, die nicht besonders ernst genommen wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for heiße Luft, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is heiße Luft, spelled H-E-I-S-S-E- -L-U-F-T.
Definition
- 1Aussage (seltener Verhalten), die nicht so wichtig ist, wie der Verursacher meint, die nicht besonders ernst genommen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how heiße Luft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alles nur heiße Luft?
„Das ist doch alles heiße Luft, was du hier von dir gibst!“
This word in other languages
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.