height
[haɪt]
The verdict
“height” is uncommon German (frequency #86,588 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,588
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Höhe
Corpus desk
Index DE-height · height · German
height · rank #86,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,588
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH heimtückische
Nearest frequency peer: heimtückische (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „height“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hausgemacht…
hausgemachtes
13,415 corpus weight
- height
height
13,413 corpus weight
- heimtückisc…
heimtückische
13,412 corpus weight
- heimtückisc…
heimtückischen
13,411 corpus weight
- Heizkraftwe…
Heizkraftwerk
13,410 corpus weight
- herausfilte…
herausfiltern
13,409 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „height“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | height |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haɪt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „height“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
height is uncommon German at frequency #86,588 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [haɪt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Höhe".
height has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is height, spelled H-E-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Höhe
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).