His
[hɪs]
The verdict
“His” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,079) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,079
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ton mit 264 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton erhöhtes H
Corpus desk
Index DE-his · His · German
His · rank #8,079 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,079
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herauszufinden
Nearest frequency peer: herauszufinden (-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 „His“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „His“ 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 | His |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɪs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „His“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for His is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hl", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [hɪs]. Frequency #8,079 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Ton mit 264 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton erhöhtes H".
His doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is His, spelled H-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ton mit 264 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton erhöhtes H
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how His appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denke bitte daran in Takt 5 ein His zu spielen!
Synonyms
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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