Hattingen
[ˈhatɪŋən]
The verdict
“Hattingen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,100
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
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 | Hattingen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈhatɪŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hattingen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Hattingen (IPA [ˈhatɪŋən]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,100 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hattingen, with forms such as "ahttingen", "hatingen", and "hatitngen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Haltungen", "Häftlingen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hattingen, spelled H-A-T-T-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahttingen,hatingen,hatitngen,hattignen,hattinegn,hattingenn,hattinggen,hattingne,hattinngen,hattnigen,hhattingen,htatingen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hattingen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Hattingen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-T-T-I-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhatɪŋən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Haltungen” - see the side-by-side comparison. Hattingen vs Haltungen
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.