hinhalten
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,171
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
hinhalten is aGermanverb. It means: etwas (in den Händen, freihändig) so vor jemandem positionieren, dass dieser es sehen oder greifen kann Pronounced [ˈhɪnˌhaltn̩]. Often confused with herhalten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hinhalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɪnˌhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hinhalten is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɪnˌhaltn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,171 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 hinhalten, with forms such as "hhinhalten", "hihnalten", and "hinahlten". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "herhalten", 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 hinhalten, spelled H-I-N-H-A-L-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas (in den Händen, freihändig) so vor jemandem positionieren, dass dieser es sehen oder greifen kann
- 2jemanden ablenken oder beschäftigen mit dem Ziel, ihn zum Warten ohne Widerstand und ohne Weggehen zu bewegen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhinhalten,hihnalten,hinahlten,hinhaletn,hinhallten,hinhaltenn,hinhaltne,hinhaltten,hinhatlen,hinhhalten,hinhlaten,hinnhalten,hnihalten,ihnhalten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hinhalten
Misspelling Variants of "hinhalten"
Frequency rank: #34,171 in German
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Nearby German words
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