Ruhe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,120
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Ruhe is aGermannoun. It means: Abwesenheit von Ablenkung, Störung, Geräusch und Bewegung; (fast völlige) Stille und Bewegungslosigkeit Pronounced [ˈʁuːə]. It ranks #1,120 in German word frequency. Often confused with Rum and run.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ruhe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁuːə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ruhe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁuːə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,120 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ruhe, with forms such as "rhue", "rruhe", and "rueh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rum", "run", "Rus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Ruhe, spelled R-U-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abwesenheit von Ablenkung, Störung, Geräusch und Bewegung; (fast völlige) Stille und Bewegungslosigkeit
- 2Zustand von Menschen und Tieren in beschaulicher Untätigkeit oder Entspannung
- 3durch keinen Kampf, keinen Streit oder keinen Unfriede gekennzeichneter Zustand
- 4Zustand des seelischen Gleichgewichts, der Gelassenheit
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rhue,rruhe,rueh,ruhhe,urhe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ruhe
Misspelling Variants of "Ruhe"
Frequency rank: #1,120 in German
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Nearby German words
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