herankommen
[hɛˈʁanˌkɔmən]
The verdict
“herankommen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,174
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich nähern, auf jemanden oder etwas zukommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-herankommen · herankommen · German
herankommen · rank #38,174 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,174
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herausgegebene
Nearest frequency peer: herausgegebene (+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 „herankommen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Heilkunde
Heilkunde
61,831 corpus weight
- Heimatschutz
Heimatschutz
61,830 corpus weight
- herankommen
herankommen
61,827 corpus weight
- herausgegeb…
herausgegebene
61,826 corpus weight
- Herzlichkeit
Herzlichkeit
61,825 corpus weight
- Herzöge
Herzöge
61,824 corpus weight
What this shows „herankommen“ 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 | herankommen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁanˌkɔmən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „herankommen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around herankommen (IPA [hɛˈʁanˌkɔmən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,174 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for herankommen, with forms such as "ehrankommen", "hearnkommen", and "heraknommen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "herkommen", "hergekommen", "herauskommen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is herankommen, spelled H-E-R-A-N-K-O-M-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich nähern, auf jemanden oder etwas zukommen
- 2sich nähern
- 3etwas erreichen oder Zugang zu etwas erreichen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herankommen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kommen Sie ruhig näher heran! Hier vorne sieht man besser!
Es wurde Herbst, es wurde Winter und Weihnachten kam heran.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrankommen
- hearnkommen
- heraknommen
- herankkommen
- herankmomen
- herankomemn
- herankomen
- herankommenn
- herankommne
- herannkommen
- heranokmmen
- hernakommen
- herrankommen
- hherankommen
- hreankommen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of herankommen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "herankommen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).