honest
[ˈhoːnəst]
The verdict
“honest” is uncommon German (frequency #74,715 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,715
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs honen
Corpus desk
Index DE-honest · honest · German
honest · rank #74,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,715
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Holzrahmen
Nearest frequency peer: Holzrahmen (-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 „honest“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Holzart
Holzart
25,290 corpus weight
- Holzbrücke
Holzbrücke
25,289 corpus weight
- Holzrahmen
Holzrahmen
25,287 corpus weight
- honest
honest
25,286 corpus weight
- Honigbiene
Honigbiene
25,285 corpus weight
- horchen
horchen
25,284 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „honest“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | honest |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhoːnəst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „honest“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
honest is uncommon German at frequency #74,715 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈhoːnəst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs honen".
honest doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is honest, spelled H-O-N-E-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Konjunktiv I 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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