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
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zustand, dass man sich selbst nicht helfen kann
| 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) |
Where “Hilflosigkeit” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Hilflosigkeit (IPA [ˈhɪlfloːzɪçkaɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,050 among 59,066 “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
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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Using “Hilflosigkeit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-I-L-F-L-O-S-I-G-K-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhɪlfloːzɪçkaɪ̯t] (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.