horses
[ˈhɔː(ɹ)sɪz]
The verdict
“horses” is uncommon German (frequency #58,884 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,884
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs horse
Corpus desk
Index DE-horses · horses · German
horses · rank #58,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,884
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Horns
Nearest frequency peer: Horns (-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 „horses“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Homoehe
Homoehe
41,120 corpus weight
- hops
hops
41,119 corpus weight
- Horns
Horns
41,118 corpus weight
- horses
horses
41,117 corpus weight
- Hosenträger
Hosenträger
41,116 corpus weight
- HPV
HPV
41,115 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „horses“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horses |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔː(ɹ)sɪz] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „horses“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
horses is uncommon German at frequency #58,884 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɔː(ɹ)sɪz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs horse".
No misspelling variants are generated for horses in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is horses, spelled H-O-R-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs horse
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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