Heia
[ˈhaɪ̯a]
The verdict
“Heia” is uncommon German (frequency #79,277 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,277
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bett; Ort, an dem man schläft
Corpus desk
Index DE-heia · Heia · German
Heia · rank #79,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,277
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hausgemeinsch…
Nearest frequency peer: Hausgemeinschaft (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Heia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Haupttäter
Haupttäter
20,727 corpus weight
- Hauptziele
Hauptziele
20,726 corpus weight
- Hausgemeins…
Hausgemeinschaft
20,725 corpus weight
- Heia
Heia
20,724 corpus weight
- heiligem
heiligem
20,722 corpus weight
- Heiligtums
Heiligtums
20,721 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Heia” sits against similarly uncommon German ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Heia” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Heia is uncommon German at frequency #79,277 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaɪ̯a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bett; Ort, an dem man schläft".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Heia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Heia, spelled H-E-I-A.
Definition
- 1Bett; Ort, an dem man schläft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Heia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich geh in die Heia.
Ich will Heia machen!
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); 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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