huge
[çju̟ːd͡ʒ]
The verdict
“huge” is uncommon German (frequency #55,425 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,425
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - riesengroß, riesig
Corpus desk
Index DE-huge · huge · German
huge · rank #55,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,425
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hula
Nearest frequency peer: hula (+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 „huge“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hostels
Hostels
44,580 corpus weight
- however
however
44,579 corpus weight
- HSS
HSS
44,578 corpus weight
- huge
huge
44,576 corpus weight
- hula
hula
44,575 corpus weight
- Höhenmetern
Höhenmetern
44,573 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „huge“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [çju̟ːd͡ʒ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „huge“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
huge is uncommon German at frequency #55,425 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [çju̟ːd͡ʒ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "riesengroß, riesig".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for huge, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct German form is huge, spelled H-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1riesengroß, riesig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Russia is a huge country.
Jupiter is the hugest planet.
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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