hinunter

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The German entry for hinunter is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɪˈnʊntɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,390 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einer Richtung folgend, die tiefer liegt als der momentane Standort; nach unten".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for hinunter, with forms such as "hhinunter", "hinnunter", and "hinnuter". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hunter", "hinter", "hinüber", 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 hinunter, spelled H-I-N-U-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.