einher
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,696
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
einher is anGermanadv. It means: herein Pronounced [aɪ̯nˈheːɐ̯]. Often confused with Enger and Einzel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [aɪ̯nˈheːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einher is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯nˈheːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,696 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "herein".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for einher, with forms such as "eihner", "einehr", and "einherr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Enger", "Einzel", "Esther", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is einher, spelled E-I-N-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1herein
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eihner,einehr,einherr,einhher,einhre,einnher,eniher,ienher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for einher
Misspelling Variants of "einher"
Frequency rank: #12,696 in German
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