herrisch
[ˈhɛʁɪʃ]
The verdict
“herrisch” is uncommon German (frequency #79,285 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,285
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - permanent hochmütig herrschen wollend
Corpus desk
Index DE-herrisch · herrisch · German
herrisch · rank #79,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,285
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Herrenhäuser
Nearest frequency peer: Herrenhäuser (-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 „herrisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hercule
Hercule
20,719 corpus weight
- Herrenhauses
Herrenhauses
20,718 corpus weight
- Herrenhäuser
Herrenhäuser
20,717 corpus weight
- herrisch
herrisch
20,716 corpus weight
- hervorragen…
hervorragendem
20,714 corpus weight
- Herzanfall
Herzanfall
20,713 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „herrisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herrisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhɛʁɪʃ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „herrisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
herrisch is uncommon German at frequency #79,285 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈhɛʁɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "permanent hochmütig herrschen wollend".
herrisch doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is herrisch, spelled H-E-R-R-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1permanent hochmütig herrschen wollend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herrisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Schwester hat ein sehr herrisches Wesen.
Mit seiner herrischen Art hat der alte Schmidt noch jede Pflegekraft vergrault.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).