heist
[haɪst]
The verdict
“heist” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,343
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gewaltsame Wegnahme fremden Eigentums, meist als bewaffneter Überfall auf eine Bank oder einen Laden: Raub, Diebstahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-heist · heist · German
heist · rank #27,343 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,343
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH heftiges
Nearest frequency peer: heftiges (-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 „heist“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hearts
hearts
72,660 corpus weight
- heftiges
heftiges
72,659 corpus weight
- heist
heist
72,658 corpus weight
- herbeiführen
herbeiführen
72,657 corpus weight
- Hercules
Hercules
72,656 corpus weight
- hergerichtet
hergerichtet
72,655 corpus weight
What this shows „heist“ 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 | heist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haɪst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „heist“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around heist (IPA [haɪst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,343 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "gewaltsame Wegnahme fremden Eigentums, meist als bewaffneter Überfall auf eine Bank oder einen Laden: Raub, Diebstahl".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for heist, with forms such as "ehist", "heisst", and "heistt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hit", "His", "het", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is heist, spelled H-E-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1gewaltsame Wegnahme fremden Eigentums, meist als bewaffneter Überfall auf eine Bank oder einen Laden: Raub, Diebstahl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“The Antwerp diamond heist, dubbed the "heist of the century", was the largest ever diamond heist and one of the largest robberies in history.”
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehist
- heisst
- heistt
- heits
- hesit
- hheist
- hiest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heist - 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 "heist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).