Hilflosigkeit
[ˈhɪlfloːzɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Hilflosigkeit” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,050
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustand, dass man sich selbst nicht helfen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-hilflosigkeit · Hilflosigkeit · German
Hilflosigkeit · rank #26,050 · 20 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,050
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hilden
Nearest frequency peer: Hilden (-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 „Hilflosigkeit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- herbeizufüh…
herbeizuführen
73,954 corpus weight
- Herrgott
Herrgott
73,953 corpus weight
- Hilden
Hilden
73,952 corpus weight
- Hilflosigke…
Hilflosigkeit
73,951 corpus weight
- hinkt
hinkt
73,950 corpus weight
- hochwertig
hochwertig
73,949 corpus weight
What this shows „Hilflosigkeit“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hilflosigkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɪlfloːzɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #26,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hilflosigkeit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Hilflosigkeit (IPA [ˈhɪlfloːzɪçkaɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,050 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hilflosigkeit, with forms such as "hhilflosigkeit", "hifllosigkeit", and "hilfflosigkeit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Hilflosigkeit, spelled H-I-L-F-L-O-S-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Zustand, dass man sich selbst nicht helfen kann
- 2Gefühl, nicht zu wissen, was man tun kann/sollte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hilflosigkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Am Vorbend hält der Herzog eine Ansprache an die Mädchen und Frauen, worin er ihnen ihre Hilflosigkeit vor Augen führt.“
„Oft fehlte etwas auf den Bildern, was wiederum die Hilflosigkeit symbolisierte.“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhilflosigkeit
- hifllosigkeit
- hilfflosigkeit
- hilfllosigkeit
- hilfloisgkeit
- hilflosgikeit
- hilflosigekit
- hilflosiggkeit
- hilflosigkeitt
- hilflosigketi
- hilflosigkiet
- hilflosigkkeit
- hilflosikgeit
- hilflossigkeit
- hilflsoigkeit
- hilfolsigkeit
- hillflosigkeit
- hillfosigkeit
- hliflosigkeit
- ihlflosigkeit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hilflosigkeit - 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 "Hilflosigkeit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).