Hervé
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The verdict
“Hervé” is uncommon German (frequency #84,095 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,095
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-herve · Hervé · German
Hervé · rank #84,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,095
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herangekommen
Nearest frequency peer: herangekommen (-2 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 „Hervé“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hemmungslose
hemmungslose
15,911 corpus weight
- Heraldik
Heraldik
15,909 corpus weight
- herangekomm…
herangekommen
15,908 corpus weight
- Hervé
Hervé
15,906 corpus weight
- hinge
hinge
15,904 corpus weight
- hinschreiben
hinschreiben
15,902 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hervé“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hervé |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hervé“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hervé is uncommon German at frequency #84,095 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hervé, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Hervé, spelled H-E-R-V-É.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hervé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hervé spielt sehr gut Tennis.
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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