hon
[hoːn]
The verdict
“hon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,001) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,001
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs honen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hon · hon · German
hon · rank #40,001 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,001
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Homeland
Nearest frequency peer: Homeland (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „hon“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hochstapler
Hochstapler
60,003 corpus weight
- hoffnungsvo…
hoffnungsvoll
60,002 corpus weight
- Homeland
Homeland
60,001 corpus weight
- hon
hon
60,000 corpus weight
- huldigen
huldigen
59,999 corpus weight
- Hypertonie
Hypertonie
59,997 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hon“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hoːn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hon“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hon is neighbouring look-alikes ("HP", "Hz", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [hoːn]. Frequency #40,001 among 3,372 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HP", "Hz", "hör", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is hon, spelled H-O-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs honen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs honen
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).