him
[hɪm]
The verdict
“him” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,118) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,118
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular Objektform: ihm, ihn
Corpus desk
Index DE-him · him · German
him · rank #15,118 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,118
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herbei
Nearest frequency peer: herbei (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „him“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- hach
hach
84,886 corpus weight
- Heimsieg
Heimsieg
84,885 corpus weight
- herbei
herbei
84,884 corpus weight
- him
him
84,883 corpus weight
- Hipster
Hipster
84,882 corpus weight
- IOC
IOC
84,880 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „him“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | him |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [hɪm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „him“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for him is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hl", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [hɪm]. Frequency #15,118 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular Objektform: ihm, ihn".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for him, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hm", "hl", "Ho", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is him, spelled H-I-M.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular Objektform: ihm, ihn
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how him appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She wrote him a letter.
"He was clearly so scared by his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his bird."
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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