Heimwerker
[ˈhaɪ̯mˌvɛʁkɐ]
The verdict
“Heimwerker” is uncommon German (frequency #58,861 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,861
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die bei sich daheim handwerkliche Arbeiten durchführt
Corpus desk
Index DE-heimwerker · Heimwerker · German
Heimwerker · rank #58,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,861
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Heimatkunde
Nearest frequency peer: Heimatkunde (-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 „Heimwerker“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hebeln
hebeln
41,143 corpus weight
- Heftchen
Heftchen
41,142 corpus weight
- Heimatkunde
Heimatkunde
41,141 corpus weight
- Heimwerker
Heimwerker
41,140 corpus weight
- hektische
hektische
41,139 corpus weight
- Heldinnen
Heldinnen
41,138 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Heimwerker“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heimwerker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯mˌvɛʁkɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Heimwerker“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Heimwerker is uncommon German at frequency #58,861 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaɪ̯mˌvɛʁkɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die bei sich daheim handwerkliche Arbeiten durchführt".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Heimwerker, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Heimwerker, spelled H-E-I-M-W-E-R-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die bei sich daheim handwerkliche Arbeiten durchführt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Heimwerker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Heimwerker weiß er, wie man das Bad fliest.
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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