hinterevshunterTell them apart

Quick tell: hintere is a adjective, hunter is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hintere” is an adjective and “hunter” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,861
“hintere” frequency rank
#11,675
“hunter” frequency rank
25536
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hintere hunter
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs hinter Jäger

Letter map: hintere vs hunter

Shared letters muted; letters that set hintere and hunter apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. hintere runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against hunter's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
hintere
6 ch
hunter

Role in the sentence - hintere and hunter

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hintere is anadjective and hunteranoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25536, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hintere is recorded at frequency rank #13,861, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈhɪntəʁə]. hunter is at rank #11,675, tagged as anoun, 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 25536, this pair ranks #1,831,779 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hintere vs hunter

Shared letters: ehnrt. Private to "hintere": i. Private to "hunter": u.

"hintere" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "hunter" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hintere ← hhintere · hinetre · hinntere · hinteer · hinterre · hintree · hinttere · hitnere
  • hunter ← hhunter · hnuter · hunetr · hunnter · hunterr · huntre · huntter · hutner

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hintere" and "hunter" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hintere" is an adjective and "hunter" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hintere" or "hunter" show up more?
"hunter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,675 in our German list, against #13,861 for "hintere". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "hintere" and "hunter". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hintere" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hunter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,831,779 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hintere" and "hunter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hunter 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 #1,831,779 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