hochmütig
[ˈhoːxˌmyːtɪç]
The verdict
“hochmütig” is uncommon German (frequency #72,539 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,539
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Art und Weise des Hochmuts, übertrieben aufgewertet zu sich selbst sein, übertrieben abwertend gegenüber anderen Personen sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-hochmutig · hochmütig · German
hochmütig · rank #72,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,539
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hirnlose
Nearest frequency peer: hirnlose (-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 „hochmütig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hidalgo
Hidalgo
27,467 corpus weight
- Highways
Highways
27,466 corpus weight
- Himmelsrich…
Himmelsrichtung
27,465 corpus weight
- hirnlose
hirnlose
27,463 corpus weight
- hochmütig
hochmütig
27,462 corpus weight
- Hofkapelle
Hofkapelle
27,459 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hochmütig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hochmütig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhoːxˌmyːtɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hochmütig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hochmütig is uncommon German at frequency #72,539 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈhoːxˌmyːtɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der Art und Weise des Hochmuts, übertrieben aufgewertet zu sich selbst sein, übertrieben abwertend gegenüber anderen Personen sein".
Zero misspellings are on record for hochmütig in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 hochmütig, spelled H-O-C-H-M-Ü-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1in der Art und Weise des Hochmuts, übertrieben aufgewertet zu sich selbst sein, übertrieben abwertend gegenüber anderen Personen sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hochmütig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Da kommt er wieder, der hochmütige Benno.
Denn wir pflegen den hochmütig zu nennen, der sich zu sehr rühmt.
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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