Herzegowina
[ˌhɛʁt͡seˈɡɔvina]
The verdict
“Herzegowina” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,923
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - südlicher Landesteil des Staates Bosnien und Herzegowina
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herzegowina |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˌhɛʁt͡seˈɡɔvina] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #18,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Herzegowina” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Herzegowina (IPA [ˌhɛʁt͡seˈɡɔvina]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,923 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "südlicher Landesteil des Staates Bosnien und Herzegowina".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Herzegowina, with forms such as "ehrzegowina", "herezgowina", and "herrzegowina". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Herzegowina, spelled H-E-R-Z-E-G-O-W-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1südlicher Landesteil des Staates Bosnien und Herzegowina
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrzegowina
- herezgowina
- herrzegowina
- herzeggowina
- herzegoiwna
- herzegowian
- herzegowinna
- herzegownia
- herzegowwina
- herzegwoina
- herzeogwina
- herzgeowina
- herzzegowina
- hezregowina
- hherzegowina
- hrezegowina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Herzegowina - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Herzegowina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-E-R-Z-E-G-O-W-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌhɛʁt͡seˈɡɔvina] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.