Hedda
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The verdict
“Hedda” is uncommon German (frequency #75,751 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,751
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ungarischer weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-hedda · Hedda · German
Hedda · rank #75,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,751
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hauf
Nearest frequency peer: Hauf (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Hedda“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hatschi
hatschi
24,253 corpus weight
- hauchdünne
hauchdünne
24,252 corpus weight
- Hauf
Hauf
24,251 corpus weight
- Hedda
Hedda
24,250 corpus weight
- Hehlerei
Hehlerei
24,249 corpus weight
- Heilanstalt
Heilanstalt
24,248 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hedda“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hedda |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hedda“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hedda is uncommon German at frequency #75,751 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ungarischer weiblicher Vorname".
Hedda has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Hedda, spelled H-E-D-D-A.
Definition
- 1ungarischer weiblicher Vorname
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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