heiß lauft
[ˈhaɪ̯s ˌlaʊ̯ft]
The verdict
“heiß lauft” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs heiß laufen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heiß lauft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯s ˌlaʊ̯ft] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heiß lauft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for heiß lauft is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaɪ̯s ˌlaʊ̯ft]. 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: "2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs heiß laufen".
No misspelling variants are generated for heiß lauft 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 heiß lauft, spelled H-E-I-S-S- -L-A-U-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs heiß laufen
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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- The one correct German spelling is H-E-I-S-S- -L-A-U-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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