Hippe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,897
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Hippe is aGermannoun. It means: Messer mit sichelförmig geschwungener Klinge, das zum Beispiel zum Abschneiden von Ästen benutzt wird, teilweise als Klappmesser ausgeführt Pronounced [ˈhɪpə]. Often confused with Hype and hope.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hippe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɪpə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hippe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɪpə]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,897 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Hippe, with forms such as "hhippe", "hipe", and "hipep". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Hype", "hope", "hopp", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Hippe, spelled H-I-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Messer mit sichelförmig geschwungener Klinge, das zum Beispiel zum Abschneiden von Ästen benutzt wird, teilweise als Klappmesser ausgeführt
- 2Sense des Todes
- 3Gebäck aus einer weichen makronenähnlichen Masse, die sehr dünn ausgestrichen wird
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhippe,hipe,hipep,hpipe,ihppe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Hippe"
Frequency rank: #41,897 in German
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