huss
[hʊs]
The verdict
“huss” is uncommon German (frequency #52,166 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,166
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hussen
Corpus desk
Index DE-huss · huss · German
huss · rank #52,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,166
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Huf
Nearest frequency peer: Huf (-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 „huss“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Homers
Homers
47,838 corpus weight
- Huf
Huf
47,836 corpus weight
- huss
huss
47,835 corpus weight
- hustet
hustet
47,834 corpus weight
- Härchen
Härchen
47,833 corpus weight
- Höchstwert
Höchstwert
47,832 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „huss“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hʊs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „huss“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
huss is uncommon German at frequency #52,166 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [hʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hussen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for huss, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is huss, spelled H-U-S-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hussen
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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