hells
[hɛlz]
The verdict
“hells” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,160
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs hell
Corpus desk
Index DE-hells · hells · German
hells · rank #34,160 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,160
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hemmen
Nearest frequency peer: hemmen (+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 „hells“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Heere
Heere
65,845 corpus weight
- Heimen
Heimen
65,844 corpus weight
- heli
heli
65,843 corpus weight
- hells
hells
65,841 corpus weight
- hemmen
hemmen
65,840 corpus weight
- hen
hen
65,839 corpus weight
What this shows „hells“ 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 | hells |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɛlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „hells“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around hells (IPA [hɛlz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,160 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs hell".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for hells, with forms such as "ehlls", "hellss", and "helsl". 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, "Helm", "help", "heul", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is hells, spelled H-E-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs hell
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehlls
- hellss
- helsl
- hhells
- hlels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hells - 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 "hells", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).