Heißer Herbst
[ˌhaɪ̯sa ˈhɛʁpst]
The verdict
“Heißer Herbst” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Metapher für die Proteste der Friedensbewegung gegen die Nachrüstung im Rahmen des Nato-Doppelbeschlusses
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heißer Herbst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌhaɪ̯sa ˈhɛʁpst] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Heißer Herbst” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Heißer Herbst is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhaɪ̯sa ˈhɛʁpst]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Metapher für die Proteste der Friedensbewegung gegen die Nachrüstung im Rahmen des Nato-Doppelbeschlusses".
No misspelling variants are generated for Heißer Herbst in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Heißer Herbst, spelled H-E-I-S-S-E-R- -H-E-R-B-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Metapher für die Proteste der Friedensbewegung gegen die Nachrüstung im Rahmen des Nato-Doppelbeschlusses
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.
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Using “Heißer Herbst”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-E-I-S-S-E-R- -H-E-R-B-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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