hive
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The verdict
“hive” is uncommon German (frequency #50,572 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,572
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Bienenstock: Kiste, Korb oder andere Konstruktion als Behausung eines Bienenschwarms
Corpus desk
Index DE-hive · hive · German
hive · rank #50,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,572
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hitzigen
Nearest frequency peer: hitzigen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „hive“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hinzufügt
hinzufügt
49,433 corpus weight
- Hirnforschu…
Hirnforschung
49,432 corpus weight
- hitzigen
hitzigen
49,430 corpus weight
- hive
hive
49,429 corpus weight
- hochdeutsch…
hochdeutschen
49,428 corpus weight
- hochrangiger
hochrangiger
49,426 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hive“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hive |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hive“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hive is uncommon German at frequency #50,572 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hive, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is hive, spelled H-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1der Bienenstock: Kiste, Korb oder andere Konstruktion als Behausung eines Bienenschwarms
- 2zu [1] gehörender Schwarm
- 3Ort, an dem viele Hausbewohner herumwimmeln
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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