hilflosen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,894
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
hilflosen is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos Pronounced [ˈhɪlfloːzn̩]. Often confused with hilflos and hilflose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hilflosen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈhɪlfloːzn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hilflosen is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɪlfloːzn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,894 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for hilflosen, with forms such as "hhilflosen", "hifllosen", and "hilfflosen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hilflos", "hilflose", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is hilflosen, spelled H-I-L-F-L-O-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hilflos
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhilflosen,hifllosen,hilfflosen,hilfllosen,hilfloesn,hilflosenn,hilflosne,hilflossen,hilflsoen,hilfolsen,hillflosen,hillfosen,hliflosen,ihlflosen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hilflosen
Misspelling Variants of "hilflosen"
Frequency rank: #41,894 in German
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Nearby German words
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