ruht
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,114
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ruht is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruhen Pronounced [ʁuːt]. Often confused with Rum and run.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁuːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ruht is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁuːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,114 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for ruht, with forms such as "rhut", "rruht", and "ruhht". 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 ruht, spelled R-U-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rhut,rruht,ruhht,ruhtt,urht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ruht
Misspelling Variants of "ruht"
Frequency rank: #11,114 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index: