helau
[heˈlaʊ̯]
The verdict
“helau” is uncommon German (frequency #52,926 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,926
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausruf und Gruß zu Karneval und Fasching
Corpus desk
Index DE-helau · helau · German
helau · rank #52,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,926
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hellere
Nearest frequency peer: hellere (+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 „helau“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Heerscharen
Heerscharen
47,078 corpus weight
- heilfroh
heilfroh
47,077 corpus weight
- helau
helau
47,075 corpus weight
- hellere
hellere
47,074 corpus weight
- Hennigsdorf
Hennigsdorf
47,073 corpus weight
- Herausgeber…
Herausgeberin
47,071 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „helau“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | helau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [heˈlaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „helau“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
helau is uncommon German at frequency #52,926 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [heˈlaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ausruf und Gruß zu Karneval und Fasching".
No generated misspelling entries exist for helau 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is helau, spelled H-E-L-A-U.
Definition
- 1Ausruf und Gruß zu Karneval und Fasching
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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