Hinterlassenschaften
[hɪntɐˈlasn̩ʃaftn̩]
The verdict
“Hinterlassenschaften” is uncommon German (frequency #55,413 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,413
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Hinterlassenschaft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hinterlassenschaften |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɪntɐˈlasn̩ʃaftn̩] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Frequency rank | #55,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hinterlassenschaften” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hinterlassenschaften is uncommon German at frequency #55,413 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hɪntɐˈlasn̩ʃaftn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hinterlassenschaften, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 Hinterlassenschaften, spelled H-I-N-T-E-R-L-A-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Hinterlassenschaft
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Hinterlassenschaft
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Hinterlassenschaft
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Hinterlassenschaft
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 “Hinterlassenschaften”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-I-N-T-E-R-L-A-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.