hochmütig
[ˈhoːxˌmyːtɪç]
The verdict
“hochmütig” is uncommon German (frequency #72,539 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,539
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in der Art und Weise des Hochmuts, übertrieben aufgewertet zu sich selbst sein, übertrieben abwertend gegenüber anderen Personen sein
| 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) |
Where “hochmütig” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hochmütig is uncommon German at frequency #72,539 among 59,066 “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
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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Using “hochmütig”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-C-H-M-Ü-T-I-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.