Heirat
[ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt]
The verdict
“Heirat” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,924
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern
Corpus desk
Index DE-heirat · Heirat · German
Heirat · rank #9,924 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,924
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hebel
Nearest frequency peer: Hebel (-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 „Heirat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- grünes
grünes
90,080 corpus weight
- has
has
90,079 corpus weight
- Hebel
Hebel
90,078 corpus weight
- Heirat
Heirat
90,077 corpus weight
- Henning
Henning
90,076 corpus weight
- Historie
Historie
90,075 corpus weight
What this shows „Heirat“ 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 | Heirat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Heirat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Heirat (IPA [ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,924 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Heirat, with forms such as "ehirat", "heiart", and "heiratt". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Hirt", "Hera", "herab", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Heirat, spelled H-E-I-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Heirat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Heirat der beiden war im April.
„Nach ihrer Heirat im Jahr 1939 zogen sie von dort nach Berlin, wo mein Vater eine Stelle als Vermessungsingenieur bei der Deutschen Reichsbahn angetreten hatte.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehirat
- heiart
- heiratt
- heirrat
- heirta
- heriat
- hheirat
- hierat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Heirat - 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 "Heirat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).