Hintern
[ˈhɪntɐn]
The verdict
“Hintern” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,073
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-hintern · Hintern · German
Hintern · rank #6,073 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,073
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Haushalte
Nearest frequency peer: Haushalte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Hintern”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gewollt
gewollt
93,931 corpus weight
- Handys
Handys
93,930 corpus weight
- Haushalte
Haushalte
93,929 corpus weight
- Hintern
Hintern
93,928 corpus weight
- häufigsten
häufigsten
93,927 corpus weight
- ISBN
ISBN
93,926 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hintern” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hintern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɪntɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Hintern” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Hintern (IPA [ˈhɪntɐn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,073 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hintern, with forms such as "hhintern", "hinetrn", and "hinntern". 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. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "hunter", "Hirten", "hungern", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Hintern, spelled H-I-N-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hintern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Setz dich auf deinen Hintern!
„Ihr Tod war genauso wenig ein Unfall, wie mein Hintern ein Unfall ist, sagte ich zu Svanhvít und hoffte, dass sie nicht empfindlich war, eine klitzekleine Portion grober Wortwahl zu ertragen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhintern
- hinetrn
- hinntern
- hintenr
- hinternn
- hinterrn
- hintren
- hinttern
- hitnern
- hnitern
- ihntern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hintern - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hintern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Hintern". Here's where to go from here.
- "Hintern" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "hunter". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,073 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "H" letter cohort. H–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.