Höhe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#717
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Höhe is aGermannoun. It means: die Dimension (Größe) nach oben Pronounced [ˈhøːə]. It ranks #717 in German word frequency. Often confused with hör and how.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Höhe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhøːə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Höhe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhøːə]. Corpus data places it at rank #717 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Höhe, with forms such as "hhöe", "hhöhe", and "höeh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hör", "how", "hot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Höhe, spelled H-Ö-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Dimension (Größe) nach oben
- 2die Menge oder Anzahl oder der Grad von messbaren Größen
- 3hoher Punkt, hochgelegener Ort
- 4oberster Punkt
- 5sich auf den Breitengrad der Erde beziehend
- 6Senkrechte auf eine Seite eines Dreiecks von der gegenüberliegenden Ecke
- 7senkrechter Abstand der Spitze oder Deckfläche von der Grundfläche eines Körpers
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhöe,hhöhe,höeh,höhhe,öhhe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Höhe
Misspelling Variants of "Höhe"
Frequency rank: #717 in German
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Nearby German words
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