Hit
[hɪt]
The verdict
“Hit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,605) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,605
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr erfolgreiches Produkt
Corpus desk
Index DE-hit · Hit · German
Hit · rank #5,605 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,605
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH heut
Nearest frequency peer: heut (-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 „Hit“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Handwerker
Handwerker
94,399 corpus weight
- heben
heben
94,398 corpus weight
- heut
heut
94,397 corpus weight
- Hit
Hit
94,396 corpus weight
- Hochschulen
Hochschulen
94,395 corpus weight
- ignoriert
ignoriert
94,394 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Hit“ 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 | Hit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɪt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Hit“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hit is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hl", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [hɪt]. Frequency #5,605 among 3,372 “H” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for Hit in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hit, spelled H-I-T.
Definition
- 1sehr erfolgreiches Produkt
- 2erfolgreiches Lied
- 3plötzliches eintreffendes, positives Ereignis
- 4Treffer bei der Suche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das neue Produkt der Firma XY wurde auf einen Schlag ein Hit.
Das Lied der jungen Sängerin ist ein Hit geworden.
Antonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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