Hufe
[ˈhuːfə]
The verdict
“Hufe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,740
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - altes Flächenmaß, das etwa sechs bis achtzehn Hektar entspricht
Corpus desk
Index DE-hufe · Hufe · German
Hufe · rank #34,740 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,740
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Holder
Nearest frequency peer: Holder (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Hufe“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hochrangigen
hochrangigen
65,265 corpus weight
- hochziehen
hochziehen
65,264 corpus weight
- Holder
Holder
65,262 corpus weight
- Hufe
Hufe
65,261 corpus weight
- indisch
indisch
65,258 corpus weight
- informellen
informellen
65,257 corpus weight
What this shows „Hufe“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hufe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhuːfə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hufe“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Hufe (IPA [ˈhuːfə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,740 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "altes Flächenmaß, das etwa sechs bis achtzehn Hektar entspricht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hufe, with forms such as "hfue", "hhufe", and "huef". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hut", "hug", "hus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Hufe, spelled H-U-F-E.
Definition
- 1altes Flächenmaß, das etwa sechs bis achtzehn Hektar entspricht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hufe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Feld war zwei Hufen groß.
„Die Lokatoren warben die Siedler, brachten sie an Ort und Stelle, teilten ihnen ihre »Hufen« zu, unterstützten sie während der schweren Anfangsjahre und erhielten dafür große Privilegien: abgabefreies Eigengut, Zinsen von einem Teil der Hufen, den Vorsitz im niederen Gericht und so fort.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hfue
- hhufe
- huef
- huffe
- uhfe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hufe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hufe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).