hors
[hors]
The verdict
“hors” is uncommon German (frequency #75,780 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,780
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - großer Einhufer; Pferd
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hors |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hors] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hors” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hors is uncommon German at frequency #75,780 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hors]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "großer Einhufer; Pferd".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hors, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hors, spelled H-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1großer Einhufer; Pferd
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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Using “hors”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [hors] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.