Hyäne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#94,425
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Hyäne is aGermannoun. It means: in Afrika und Südwestasien beheimatetes, oberflächlich hundeähnliches, systematisch jedoch katzenartiges Raubtier, das sich vor allem von Aas ernährt; ein Vertreter von [3] Pronounced [hyˈɛːnə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hyäne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hyˈɛːnə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hyäne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hyˈɛːnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,425 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Hyäne in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Hyäne, spelled H-Y-Ä-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in Afrika und Südwestasien beheimatetes, oberflächlich hundeähnliches, systematisch jedoch katzenartiges Raubtier, das sich vor allem von Aas ernährt; ein Vertreter von [3]
- 2eine ungehemmt egoistische Person ohne jegliche Skrupel
- 3eine Familie der Ordnung der Raubtiere
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Frequency rank: #94,425 in German
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