vh
[v]
The verdict
“vh” is uncommon German (frequency #73,077 among 49,639 “V” headwords), classed as a character. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,077
- frequency rank, German
- 49,639
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zweiunddreißigster Buchstabe des Shona-Alphabets (Minuskel)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [v] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #73,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vh” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vh is uncommon German at frequency #73,077 among 49,639 “V” headwords, classed as acharacter, transcribed [v]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zweiunddreißigster Buchstabe des Shona-Alphabets (Minuskel)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vh, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vh, spelled V-H.
Definition
- 1zweiunddreißigster Buchstabe des Shona-Alphabets (Minuskel)
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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Using “vh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [v] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.