hora
[ˈɔɾə]
The verdict
“hora” is uncommon German (frequency #59,737 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,737
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Stunde; Zeiteinheit, entspricht dem 24. Teil eines Tages
Corpus desk
Index DE-hora · hora · German
hora · rank #59,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,737
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hopf
Nearest frequency peer: hopf (-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 „hora“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hofladen
Hofladen
40,268 corpus weight
- Honk
Honk
40,267 corpus weight
- honorieren
honorieren
40,266 corpus weight
- hopf
hopf
40,265 corpus weight
- hora
hora
40,264 corpus weight
- humanistisch
humanistisch
40,262 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hora“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hora |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔɾə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hora“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hora is uncommon German at frequency #59,737 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɔɾə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Stunde; Zeiteinheit, entspricht dem 24. Teil eines Tages".
hora has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hora, spelled H-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1die Stunde; Zeiteinheit, entspricht dem 24. Teil eines Tages
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Una hora té seixanta minuts.
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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