heid
[hid]
The verdict
“heid” is uncommon German (frequency #57,083 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,083
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - oberster bzw. vorderster Körperteil eines Lebewesens; Kopf
Corpus desk
Index DE-heid · heid · German
heid · rank #57,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,083
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 59,066
- PHOTO-FINISH Hebräer
Nearest frequency peer: Hebräer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “heid”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hausberg
Hausberg
42,921 corpus weight
- Hautpflege
Hautpflege
42,920 corpus weight
- Hebräer
Hebräer
42,919 corpus weight
- heid
heid
42,918 corpus weight
- heiligt
heiligt
42,917 corpus weight
- Heimatgesch…
Heimatgeschichte
42,916 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “heid” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hid] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heid” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heid is uncommon German at frequency #57,083 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hid]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "oberster bzw. vorderster Körperteil eines Lebewesens; Kopf".
Zero misspellings are on record for heid in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is heid, spelled H-E-I-D.
Definition
- 1oberster bzw. vorderster Körperteil eines Lebewesens; Kopf
Synonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "heid", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.