Historiker
[hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐ]
The verdict
“Historiker” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,203
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wissenschaftler, der sich mit der Erforschung und Darstellung der Geschichte beschäftigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-historiker · Historiker · German
Historiker · rank #6,203 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,203
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herstellen
Nearest frequency peer: herstellen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Historiker“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gustav
Gustav
93,802 corpus weight
- Helm
Helm
93,800 corpus weight
- herstellen
herstellen
93,799 corpus weight
- Historiker
Historiker
93,798 corpus weight
- Hügel
Hügel
93,796 corpus weight
- Ingenieur
Ingenieur
93,795 corpus weight
What this shows „Historiker“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Historiker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Historiker“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Historiker (IPA [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,203 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Wissenschaftler, der sich mit der Erforschung und Darstellung der Geschichte beschäftigt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Historiker, with forms such as "hhistoriker", "hisotriker", and "hisstoriker". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Historikern", "Historikers", "Historikerin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Historiker, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Wissenschaftler, der sich mit der Erforschung und Darstellung der Geschichte beschäftigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Historiker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Historiker kann allerdings die Ebene wechseln und statt der unsicheren Fakten die Art, wie über das Ereignis geredet wird, betrachten.“
„Historiker haben Aufzeichnungen über 17108 Fahrten von Sklavenschiffen im 18. Jahrhundert zusammengetragen; nur in einer Hand voll dieser Berichte ist jedoch etwas über das alltägliche Geschehen an Bord der Schiffe festgehalten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhistoriker
- hisotriker
- hisstoriker
- histoirker
- historiekr
- historikerr
- historikker
- historikre
- historkier
- historriker
- histroiker
- histtoriker
- hitsoriker
- hsitoriker
- ihstoriker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Historiker - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Historiker", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).