Hetzer
[ˈhɛt͡sɐ]
The verdict
“Hetzer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,173
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (männliche) Person, die in der Öffentlichkeit Hass gegen jemanden/etwas schürt, Stimmung gegen jemanden/etwas macht
Corpus desk
Index DE-hetzer · Hetzer · German
Hetzer · rank #29,173 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,173
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Herzchen
Nearest frequency peer: Herzchen (-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 „Hetzer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hellblau
hellblau
70,831 corpus weight
- hervorragen…
hervorragendes
70,830 corpus weight
- Herzchen
Herzchen
70,829 corpus weight
- Hetzer
Hetzer
70,828 corpus weight
- Hintergründ…
Hintergründen
70,827 corpus weight
- hinzunehmen
hinzunehmen
70,826 corpus weight
What this shows „Hetzer“ 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 | Hetzer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɛt͡sɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hetzer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Hetzer (IPA [ˈhɛt͡sɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,173 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(männliche) Person, die in der Öffentlichkeit Hass gegen jemanden/etwas schürt, Stimmung gegen jemanden/etwas macht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hetzer, with forms such as "ehtzer", "hetezr", and "hettzer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hitze", "heuer", "Hüter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hetzer, spelled H-E-T-Z-E-R.
Definition
- 1(männliche) Person, die in der Öffentlichkeit Hass gegen jemanden/etwas schürt, Stimmung gegen jemanden/etwas macht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hetzer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Längst schon hatten die nationalsozialistischen Hetzer dies Volk damit durchsättigt, jetzt waren sie nah am Ziel, die Republik hing nur noch an einem Haar.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtzer
- hetezr
- hettzer
- hetzerr
- hetzre
- hetzzer
- hezter
- hhetzer
- htezer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hetzer - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hetzer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).