here
[hɪə]
The verdict
“here” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,066) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,066
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hier
Corpus desk
Index DE-here · here · German
here · rank #7,066 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,066
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Helene
Nearest frequency peer: Helene (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „here“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hartmann
Hartmann
92,939 corpus weight
- hau
hau
92,937 corpus weight
- Helene
Helene
92,936 corpus weight
- here
here
92,935 corpus weight
- Hintergründe
Hintergründe
92,934 corpus weight
- inmitten
inmitten
92,933 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „here“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | here |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [hɪə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „here“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for here is neighbouring look-alikes ("hey", "hör", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [hɪə]. Frequency #7,066 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "hier".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for here, with forms such as "herre", "hhere", and "hree". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "hör", "het", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is here, spelled H-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1hier
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- herre
- hhere
- hree
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of here - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "here", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).