Heldentat
[ˈhɛldn̩ˌtaːt]
The verdict
“Heldentat” is uncommon German (frequency #70,375 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,375
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Handlung, die viel Mut erforderte und zur Lösung eines Problems/einer Notsituation führte
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heldentat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɛldn̩ˌtaːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Heldentat” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Heldentat is uncommon German at frequency #70,375 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɛldn̩ˌtaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Handlung, die viel Mut erforderte und zur Lösung eines Problems/einer Notsituation führte".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Heldentat, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Heldentat, spelled H-E-L-D-E-N-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Handlung, die viel Mut erforderte und zur Lösung eines Problems/einer Notsituation führte
This word in other languages
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 “Heldentat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-E-L-D-E-N-T-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhɛldn̩ˌtaːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.