Heute
[ˈhɔɪ̯tə]
The verdict
“Heute” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #127
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Gegenwart, die heutige Zeit (Zeit in der wir leben)
Corpus desk
Index DE-heute · Heute · German
Heute · rank #127 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #127
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hab
Nearest frequency peer: hab (-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 “Heute”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dich
dich
99,877 corpus weight
- Menschen
Menschen
99,876 corpus weight
- hab
hab
99,875 corpus weight
- Heute
Heute
99,874 corpus weight
- kommt
kommt
99,873 corpus weight
- Nichts
Nichts
99,872 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Heute” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heute |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔɪ̯tə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Heute” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Heute (IPA [ˈhɔɪ̯tə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #127 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gegenwart, die heutige Zeit (Zeit in der wir leben)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Heute, with forms such as "ehute", "hetue", and "heuet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hut", "hue", "Hure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Heute, spelled H-E-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Gegenwart, die heutige Zeit (Zeit in der wir leben)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Heute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man sollte das Heute genießen, denn wer weiß, was die Zukunft bringt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehute
- hetue
- heuet
- heutte
- hheute
- huete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Heute - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Heute", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.