herausfinden
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,220
in German word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
herausfinden is aGermanverb. It means: etwas (durch Nachdenken/Forschen) entdecken, etwas in Erfahrung bringen Pronounced [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌfɪndn̩]. It ranks #8,220 in German word frequency. Often confused with herausfindet and herauszufinden.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herausfinden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌfɪndn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for herausfinden is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌfɪndn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,220 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for herausfinden, with forms such as "ehrausfinden", "hearusfinden", and "herasufinden". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "herausfindet", "herauszufinden", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is herausfinden, spelled H-E-R-A-U-S-F-I-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas (durch Nachdenken/Forschen) entdecken, etwas in Erfahrung bringen
- 2in einer größeren Menge etwas/jemanden entdecken
- 3einen Weg aus etwas entdecken/finden (beispielsweise aus einem Labyrinth, einem unbekannten Haus), den Ausgang von etwas finden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrausfinden,hearusfinden,herasufinden,heraufsinden,herausffinden,herausfidnen,herausfindden,herausfindenn,herausfindne,herausfinedn,herausfinnden,herausfniden,herausifnden,heraussfinden,herrausfinden,heruasfinden,hherausfinden,hreausfinden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for herausfinden
Misspelling Variants of "herausfinden"
Frequency rank: #8,220 in German
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