hellen
[ˈhɛlən]
The verdict
“hellen” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,215
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erhellen, heller werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-hellen · hellen · German
hellen · rank #9,215 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,215
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Heimatstadt
Nearest frequency peer: Heimatstadt (-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 „hellen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- halbwegs
halbwegs
90,789 corpus weight
- Heiliger
Heiliger
90,788 corpus weight
- Heimatstadt
Heimatstadt
90,787 corpus weight
- hellen
hellen
90,786 corpus weight
- heuer
heuer
90,785 corpus weight
- hingehen
hingehen
90,784 corpus weight
What this shows „hellen“ 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 | hellen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɛlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „hellen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hellen (IPA [ˈhɛlən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,215 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hellen, with forms such as "ehllen", "heleln", and "helen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "holen", "Hölle", "Hülle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is hellen, spelled H-E-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1erhellen, heller werden
- 2bleichen, heller machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hellen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Francesco sah den Schwarzen an und sein Blick hellte sich für einen Moment etwas, doch dann sah man, dass er doch nicht überzeugt war.“
„Wohl auch manchem Bösewichte Hellst du, Mond, den schlimmen Pfad, Doch du mahnst an ein Gerichte. Wo auch ihm Vergeltung naht!“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehllen
- heleln
- helen
- hellenn
- hellne
- hhellen
- hlelen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hellen - 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 "hellen", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).