Herisau
[ˈhɛʁizaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Herisau” is uncommon German (frequency #73,602 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,602
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine politische Gemeinde im Bezirk Hinterland des Kantons Appenzell Ausserrhoden in der Schweiz
Corpus desk
Index DE-herisau · Herisau · German
Herisau · rank #73,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,602
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hergestellter
Nearest frequency peer: hergestellter (-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 „Herisau“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- heranführen
heranführen
26,402 corpus weight
- heraussuchen
heraussuchen
26,401 corpus weight
- hergestellt…
hergestellter
26,400 corpus weight
- Herisau
Herisau
26,399 corpus weight
- Heuschrecke
Heuschrecke
26,398 corpus weight
- hiesiger
hiesiger
26,396 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Herisau“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herisau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɛʁizaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Herisau“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Herisau is uncommon German at frequency #73,602 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈhɛʁizaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine politische Gemeinde im Bezirk Hinterland des Kantons Appenzell Ausserrhoden in der Schweiz".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Herisau, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Herisau, spelled H-E-R-I-S-A-U.
Definition
- 1eine politische Gemeinde im Bezirk Hinterland des Kantons Appenzell Ausserrhoden in der Schweiz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Herisau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Herisau wurde zur Alpenstadt des Jahres 2003 gekürt.
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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