hip
[hɪp]
The verdict
“hip” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,934) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,934
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Mode, voll im Trend
Corpus desk
Index DE-hip · hip · German
hip · rank #6,934 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,934
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hinteren
Nearest frequency peer: hinteren (-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 „hip“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hertha
Hertha
93,070 corpus weight
- Highlight
Highlight
93,069 corpus weight
- hinteren
hinteren
93,068 corpus weight
- hip
hip
93,067 corpus weight
- Hoffnungen
Hoffnungen
93,066 corpus weight
- Hubert
Hubert
93,065 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hip“ 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 | hip |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [hɪp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hip“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hip is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hl", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [hɪp]. Frequency #6,934 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "in Mode, voll im Trend".
hip has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is hip, spelled H-I-P.
Definition
- 1in Mode, voll im Trend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und Skispringen ist trotz jüngst respektabler Leistungen der anderen deutschen Jungs bei der Nordischen Ski-WM längst nicht mehr so hip wie mit Hanni.“
Laura trägt immer hippe Klamotten.
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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