Heldentat
[ˈhɛldn̩ˌtaːt]
The verdict
“Heldentat” is uncommon German (frequency #70,375 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,375
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, die viel Mut erforderte und zur Lösung eines Problems/einer Notsituation führte
Corpus desk
Index DE-heldentat · Heldentat · German
Heldentat · rank #70,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,375
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Heldentum
Nearest frequency peer: Heldentum (+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 „Heldentat“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- heilsame
heilsame
29,629 corpus weight
- Heimkehrer
Heimkehrer
29,628 corpus weight
- Heldentat
Heldentat
29,626 corpus weight
- Heldentum
Heldentum
29,625 corpus weight
- hergenommen
hergenommen
29,623 corpus weight
- Herrenmode
Herrenmode
29,622 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Heldentat“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Heldentat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Heldentat is uncommon German at frequency #70,375 among 3,372 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Heldentat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Jede Generation hat seitdem die Heldentaten, mit denen sich ihre Väter und Großväter unsterblich machten, cineastisch nacherlebt.“
„Fast bin ich stolz, als hätte mein Großonkel eine Heldentat begangen.“
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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