Heirat
[ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt]
The verdict
“Heirat” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #9,924 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,924
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern
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) |
Where “Heirat” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Heirat is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,924 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Heirat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-E-I-R-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaɪ̯ˌʁaːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Hirt” - see the side-by-side comparison. Heirat vs Hirt
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.