falconvshildeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: falcon is a noun, hilde is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“falcon” is a noun and “hilde” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,119
“falcon” frequency rank
#20,294
“hilde” frequency rank
49413
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature falcon hilde
Definition der Falke 2. Person Singular Imperativ des Verbs hildan

Letter map: falcon vs hilde

Shared letters muted; letters that set falcon and hilde apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. falcon runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against hilde's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
falcon
5 ch
hilde

Part-of-speech tell for falcon / hilde

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: falcon is anoun and hildeaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49413, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

falcon is recorded at frequency rank #29,119, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hilde is at rank #20,294, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49413, this pair ranks #1,212,488 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of falcon vs hilde

Shared letters: l. Private to "falcon": acfno. Private to "hilde": dehi.

"falcon" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "hilde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • falconaflcon · faclon · falccon · falcno · falconn · fallcon · falocn · ffalcon
  • hildehhilde · hidle · hildde · hiled · hillde · hlide · ihlde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "falcon" and "hilde" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "falcon" is a noun and "hilde" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "falcon" or "hilde"?
"hilde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,294 in our German list, against #29,119 for "falcon". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "falcon" vs "hilde" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "falcon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hilde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,212,488 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "falcon" and "hilde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "falcon vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,212,488 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list