Herrchen
[ˈhɛʁçən]
The verdict
“Herrchen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,760
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mann von kleiner Statur
Corpus desk
Index DE-herrchen · Herrchen · German
Herrchen · rank #22,760 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hering
Nearest frequency peer: Hering (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Herrchen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- herb
herb
77,244 corpus weight
- Heribert
Heribert
77,243 corpus weight
- Hering
Hering
77,242 corpus weight
- Herrchen
Herrchen
77,241 corpus weight
- himmlische
himmlische
77,239 corpus weight
- hingeht
hingeht
77,238 corpus weight
What this shows „Herrchen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Herrchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɛʁçən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Herrchen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Herrchen (IPA [ˈhɛʁçən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,760 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Herrchen, with forms such as "ehrrchen", "herchen", and "hercrhen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Herren", "Herzchen", "herrsche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Herrchen, spelled H-E-R-R-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Mann von kleiner Statur
- 2männliche Person, die einen Hund zur Haustierhaltung besitzt, die sich einen Hund hält
- 3Mann (sehr) niedrigen Alters
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Herrchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als Cresspahl an einem Sonntag im Juli 1933 in den Norden Londons reiste, ging und stieg und fuhr ihm jemand nach, ein kleines Herrchen mit einem Regenschirm, dem der sommerliche Anzug so uneben saß, als habe er ihn samt der übrigen Eleganz geliehen.“
„Wuffi, komm zu Herrchen!“, rief Manfred.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrrchen
- herchen
- hercrhen
- herrcchen
- herrcehn
- herrchenn
- herrchhen
- herrchne
- herrhcen
- hherrchen
- hrerchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Herrchen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Herrchen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).