hämmern
[ˈhɛmɐn]
The verdict
“hämmern” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,121
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit einem Hammer oder einem anderen Gegenstand wiederholt auf etwas einschlagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hammern · hämmern · German
hämmern · rank #30,121 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Häme
Nearest frequency peer: Häme (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „hämmern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hypothesen
Hypothesen
69,883 corpus weight
- Häftlingen
Häftlingen
69,882 corpus weight
- Häme
Häme
69,881 corpus weight
- hämmern
hämmern
69,880 corpus weight
- hängenden
hängenden
69,879 corpus weight
- hängst
hängst
69,878 corpus weight
What this shows „hämmern“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | hämmern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɛmɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „hämmern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hämmern (IPA [ˈhɛmɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,121 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hämmern, with forms such as "hhämmern", "hmämern", and "hämemrn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Hummer", "hemmen", "Hemmer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is hämmern, spelled H-Ä-M-M-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1mit einem Hammer oder einem anderen Gegenstand wiederholt auf etwas einschlagen
- 2etwas mit dem Hammer bearbeiten
- 3ein stetiges, klopfendes Geräusch verursachen
- 4jemandem etwas einprägen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hämmern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Herbert hämmert wie verrückt gegen die Tür, aber es tut sich nichts.
Der Kupferschmied hämmert das Blech in Form.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhämmern
- hmämern
- hämemrn
- hämern
- hämmenr
- hämmernn
- hämmerrn
- hämmren
- ähmmern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hämmern - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hämmern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).