Honig
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,436
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
Honig is aGermannoun. It means: von Honigbienen hergestelltes Produkt aus Nektar oder Pflanzenlaussekreten und Speichel, das der Nahrungsversorgung dient Pronounced [ˈhoːnɪç]. It ranks #6,436 in German word frequency. Often confused with hung and honor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːnɪç] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Honig is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhoːnɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,436 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "von Honigbienen hergestelltes Produkt aus Nektar oder Pflanzenlaussekreten und Speichel, das der Nahrungsversorgung dient".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Honig, with forms such as "hhonig", "hnoig", and "hoing". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "hung", "honor", "hon", 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 Honig, spelled H-O-N-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von Honigbienen hergestelltes Produkt aus Nektar oder Pflanzenlaussekreten und Speichel, das der Nahrungsversorgung dient
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhonig,hnoig,hoing,hongi,honigg,honnig,ohnig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Honig
Misspelling Variants of "Honig"
Frequency rank: #6,436 in German
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