Homie
[ˈhoːmi]
The verdict
“Homie” is uncommon German (frequency #54,617 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,617
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kumpel, Freund (mit dem man zusammen in einer Bande oder Gang Mitglied ist)
Corpus desk
Index DE-homie · Homie · German
Homie · rank #54,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,617
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hirschen
Nearest frequency peer: Hirschen (-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 „Homie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Heuhaufen
Heuhaufen
45,388 corpus weight
- hierunter
hierunter
45,387 corpus weight
- Hirschen
Hirschen
45,385 corpus weight
- Homie
Homie
45,384 corpus weight
- Hornberg
Hornberg
45,382 corpus weight
- Hornissen
Hornissen
45,381 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Homie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Homie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːmi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Homie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Homie is uncommon German at frequency #54,617 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːmi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kumpel, Freund (mit dem man zusammen in einer Bande oder Gang Mitglied ist)".
Zero misspellings are on record for Homie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Homie, spelled H-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Kumpel, Freund (mit dem man zusammen in einer Bande oder Gang Mitglied ist)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Homie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie ist mit ihren Homies in der Innenstadt unterwegs.
Um einer von Jasons Homies zu werden, musste er eine Mutprobe bestehen.
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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