Herde

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Herde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈheːɐ̯də]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,505 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gruppe von meist größeren Säugetieren der gleichen Art, die im losen oder sozialisierten Verband (mit Ausbildung einer Rangordnung) leben; Gruppen von flugunfähigen Vögeln und Gruppen verschiedener...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Herde, with forms such as "ehrde", "hedre", and "herdde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Herr", "Herz", "höre", and more, 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 Herde, spelled H-E-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.