Heiliger
[ˈhaɪ̯lɪɡɐ]
The verdict
“Heiliger” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,213
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als heilig verehrte Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-heiliger · Heiliger · German
Heiliger · rank #9,213 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,213
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH halbwegs
Nearest frequency peer: halbwegs (-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 „Heiliger“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gottfried
Gottfried
90,791 corpus weight
- grillen
grillen
90,790 corpus weight
- halbwegs
halbwegs
90,789 corpus weight
- Heiliger
Heiliger
90,788 corpus weight
- Heimatstadt
Heimatstadt
90,787 corpus weight
- hellen
hellen
90,786 corpus weight
What this shows „Heiliger“ 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 | Heiliger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯lɪɡɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Heiliger“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Heiliger (IPA [ˈhaɪ̯lɪɡɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,213 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Heiliger, with forms such as "ehiliger", "heiilger", and "heilgier". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "heutiger", "heiliges", "heilig", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Heiliger, spelled H-E-I-L-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1als heilig verehrte Person
- 2rechtschaffene, tugendhafte männliche Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Heiliger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Figur auf dem Altar stellt wohl einen Heiligen dar.
„Die Odyssee des Heiligen endet schließlich im nordostenglischen Durham.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehiliger
- heiilger
- heilgier
- heiliegr
- heiligerr
- heiligger
- heiligre
- heilliger
- heliiger
- hheiliger
- hieliger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Heiliger - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Heiliger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).