heteros
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The verdict
“heteros” is uncommon German (frequency #57,094 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,094
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs hetero
Corpus desk
Index DE-heteros · heteros · German
heteros · rank #57,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,094
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hervorgegange…
Nearest frequency peer: hervorgegangenen (-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 „heteros“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Herdplatte
Herdplatte
42,910 corpus weight
- Hersbruck
Hersbruck
42,909 corpus weight
- hervorgegan…
hervorgegangenen
42,908 corpus weight
- heteros
heteros
42,907 corpus weight
- hingerissen
hingerissen
42,904 corpus weight
- hinnehmbar
hinnehmbar
42,903 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „heteros“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heteros |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „heteros“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
heteros is uncommon German at frequency #57,094 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs hetero".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for heteros, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is heteros, spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs hetero
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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