hinfallen
[ˈhɪnˌfalən]
The verdict
“hinfallen” is uncommon German (frequency #69,359 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,359
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (mit Wucht) zu Boden, auf die Erde fallen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hinfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɪnˌfalən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hinfallen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hinfallen is uncommon German at frequency #69,359 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈhɪnˌfalən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hinfallen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hinfallen, spelled H-I-N-F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1(mit Wucht) zu Boden, auf die Erde fallen
- 2sich vor jemandem auf die Knie werfen
- 3auf den Boden, die Erde fallen; nach unten fallen
- 4hinfällig werden; nicht mehr in Betracht kommen
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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 “hinfallen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-I-N-F-A-L-L-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.