Herausgeber
[hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌɡeːbɐ]
The verdict
“Herausgeber” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #6,668 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,668
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Person oder Personengruppe, die für die Veröffentlichung von künstlerischen oder wissenschaftlichen Werken in Wort, Schrift, Ton oder Bild rechtlich und publizistisch verantwortlich zeichnet
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 | Herausgeber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌɡeːbɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Herausgeber” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Herausgeber is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌɡeːbɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,668 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 generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Herausgeber, with forms such as "ehrausgeber", "hearusgeber", and "herasugeber". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "herausgeben", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Herausgeber, spelled H-E-R-A-U-S-G-E-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1eine Person oder Personengruppe, die für die Veröffentlichung von künstlerischen oder wissenschaftlichen Werken in Wort, Schrift, Ton oder Bild rechtlich und publizistisch verantwortlich zeichnet
- 2eine Person, die die journalistische Leitlinie eines periodischen Mediums (Zeitschrift etc.) bestimmt und deren Umsetzung überwacht
- 3Emittent einer Wandelanleihe oder einer Umtauschanleihe
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrausgeber,hearusgeber,herasugeber,heraugseber,herausegber,herausgbeer,herausgebber,herausgeberr,herausgebre,herausgeebr,herausggeber,heraussgeber,herrausgeber,heruasgeber,hherausgeber,hreausgeber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Herausgeber - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Herausgeber”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-E-R-A-U-S-G-E-B-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌɡeːbɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “herausgeben” - see the side-by-side comparison. Herausgeber vs herausgeben
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.