Hercule
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The verdict
“Hercule” is uncommon German (frequency #79,282 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,282
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - französischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-hercule · Hercule · German
Hercule · rank #79,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,282
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Herrenhauses
Nearest frequency peer: Herrenhauses (+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 „Hercule“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- heiligem
heiligem
20,722 corpus weight
- Heiligtums
Heiligtums
20,721 corpus weight
- Hercule
Hercule
20,719 corpus weight
- Herrenhauses
Herrenhauses
20,718 corpus weight
- Herrenhäuser
Herrenhäuser
20,717 corpus weight
- herrisch
herrisch
20,716 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hercule“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hercule |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hercule“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hercule is uncommon German at frequency #79,282 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "französischer männlicher Vorname".
Hercule has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Hercule, spelled H-E-R-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1französischer männlicher Vorname
This word in other languages
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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