Highschool
[ˈhaɪ̯skuːl]
The verdict
“Highschool” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,016
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - weiterführende Schule des sekundären Bildungsbereichs in verschiedenen Ländern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Highschool |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯skuːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Highschool” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Highschool (IPA [ˈhaɪ̯skuːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,016 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "weiterführende Schule des sekundären Bildungsbereichs in verschiedenen Ländern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Highschool, with forms such as "hgihschool", "hhighschool", and "higghschool". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Highschool, spelled H-I-G-H-S-C-H-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1weiterführende Schule des sekundären Bildungsbereichs in verschiedenen Ländern
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hgihschool,hhighschool,higghschool,highcshool,highhschool,highscchool,highschhool,highschol,highscholo,highschooll,highscohol,highshcool,highsschool,higshchool,hihgschool,ihghschool
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Highschool - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “Highschool”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-I-G-H-S-C-H-O-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaɪ̯skuːl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.