VHS
[faʊ̯haːˈʔɛs]
The verdict
“VHS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,997) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,997
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volkshochschule
Corpus desk
Index DE-vhs · VHS · German
VHS · rank #11,997 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,997
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vetter
Nearest frequency peer: Vetter (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „VHS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- versicherten
versicherten
88,007 corpus weight
- Verwandtsch…
Verwandtschaft
88,006 corpus weight
- Vetter
Vetter
88,005 corpus weight
- VHS
VHS
88,004 corpus weight
- Virginia
Virginia
88,003 corpus weight
- voice
voice
88,002 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „VHS“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | VHS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [faʊ̯haːˈʔɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „VHS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VHS is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [faʊ̯haːˈʔɛs]. Frequency #11,997 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Volkshochschule".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for VHS, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "vi", "VR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is VHS, spelled V-H-S.
Definition
- 1Volkshochschule
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how VHS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wirst du auf die FHS, GHS oder VHS gehen?
„Kreativ sind immer nur Muttis, die einen Gewürzbindekurs in der VHS absolvieren, oder Allianz-Vertreter, die im Strategieworkshop Collagen schnipseln.“
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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