Herat
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The verdict
“Herat” is uncommon German (frequency #99,960 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,960
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt im Nordwesten von Afghanistan
Corpus desk
Index DE-herat · Herat · German
Herat · rank #99,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,960
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herangegangen
Nearest frequency peer: herangegangen (-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 „Herat“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hellgrünen
hellgrünen
44 corpus weight
- Helmbrechts
Helmbrechts
43 corpus weight
- herangegang…
herangegangen
42 corpus weight
- Herat
Herat
41 corpus weight
- herauszuzie…
herauszuziehen
40 corpus weight
- hereinbrech…
hereinbrechen
39 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Herat“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Herat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Herat is uncommon German at frequency #99,960 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Herat in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Herat, spelled H-E-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Stadt im Nordwesten von Afghanistan
- 2Provinz im Westen von Afghanistan
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Herat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Diese Dynastie, die ihr Machtzentrum in der Felsenburg Firuzkuh unweit des westafghanischen Herat hatte, errichtete ein Reich, das von Khorassan bis in die Gangesebene reichte.“
„1995 zogen sie weiter nach Nordwesten, um die an der Grenze zum Iran gelegene Stadt Herat zu erobern, und dann in den Osten des Landes, wo sie fast zwei Jahre lang Kabul belagerten.“
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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