helau
[heˈlaʊ̯]
The verdict
“helau” is an uncommon German word, ranked #52,926 in German word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #52,926
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ausruf und Gruß zu Karneval und Fasching
| 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) |
Where “helau” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for helau is 5 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [heˈlaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,926 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ausruf und Gruß zu Karneval und Fasching".
No misspelling variants are generated for helau 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 helau, spelled H-E-L-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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Using “helau”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-E-L-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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