hum
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The verdict
“hum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,488) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,488
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männliches Personalpronomen der dritten Person Singular im Objektiv(≘ Dativ und Akkusativ): ihm, ihn
Corpus desk
Index DE-hum · hum · German
hum · rank #47,488 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,488
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH humoristischen
Nearest frequency peer: humoristischen (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „hum“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hochheim
Hochheim
52,517 corpus weight
- Holtz
Holtz
52,516 corpus weight
- Holzschnitte
Holzschnitte
52,515 corpus weight
- hum
hum
52,513 corpus weight
- humoristisc…
humoristischen
52,512 corpus weight
- hygienische
hygienische
52,510 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hum“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | hum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hum“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hum is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "Hut", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced […]. Frequency #47,488 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "männliches Personalpronomen der dritten Person Singular im Objektiv(≘ Dativ und Akkusativ): ihm, ihn".
hum doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "Hut", "hus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hum, spelled H-U-M.
Definition
- 1männliches Personalpronomen der dritten Person Singular im Objektiv(≘ Dativ und Akkusativ): ihm, ihn
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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