Höhe
\ˈhøːə\
The verdict
“Höhe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Altitude, hauteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hohe · Höhe · French
Höhe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Höhe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhøːə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Höhe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Höhe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhøːə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Höhe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Höhe, spelled H-Ö-H-E.
Definition
- 1Altitude, hauteur.
- 2Valeur, mesure d'une grandeur.
- 3Haut, sommet, point situé en altitude.
- 4Quantité, nombre, degré (de grandeurs mesurables).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Höhe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2017 wurde unsere Einheit unter anderem eingesetzt, weil die Kölner Seilbahn über dem Rhein plötzlich stehen blieb und wir 65 Fahrgäste aus den Gondeln evakuieren mussten. Bei der Rettungsaktion wurden die Fahrgäste aus etwa 50 Metern Höhe auf ein Löschboot abgeseilt, ein Teil konnte über Drehleitern vom Ufer aus evakuiert werden.
Als OS434 durch den Hagel flog, war die Maschine bereits im Sinkflug auf einer Höhe von etwa 18 000 Fuß (etwa sechs Kilometer).
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.