hus
[huːˀs]
The verdict
“hus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,244) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,244
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haus
Corpus desk
Index DE-hus · hus · German
hus · rank #35,244 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,244
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hungerstreik
Nearest frequency peer: Hungerstreik (-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 „hus“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- humane
humane
64,760 corpus weight
- hung
hung
64,759 corpus weight
- Hungerstreik
Hungerstreik
64,758 corpus weight
- hus
hus
64,757 corpus weight
- häufiges
häufiges
64,756 corpus weight
- identifizie…
identifizierten
64,755 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hus“ 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 | hus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [huːˀs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hus“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hus is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "Hut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [huːˀs]. Frequency #35,244 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Haus".
hus has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "Hut", "hust", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 hus, spelled H-U-S.
Definition
- 1Haus
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).