history
[hɪstəri]
The verdict
“history” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,391
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Historie
Corpus desk
Index DE-history · history · German
history · rank #8,391 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,391
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hinunter
Nearest frequency peer: hinunter (-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 „history“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hauch
Hauch
91,613 corpus weight
- heftige
heftige
91,612 corpus weight
- hinunter
hinunter
91,611 corpus weight
- history
history
91,610 corpus weight
- homosexuell
homosexuell
91,609 corpus weight
- HP
HP
91,608 corpus weight
What this shows „history“ 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 | history |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɪstəri] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „history“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around history (IPA [hɪstəri]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,391 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for history, with forms such as "hhistory", "hisotry", and "hisstory". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Historie", "histoire", "historia", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is history, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Historie
- 2Geschichte
- 3Werdegang, Vorgeschichte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how history appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the local museum you can learn about the history of the town.
"In the "Summary of Irish History" now offered to the public, a mere sketch is given of some of these details, whilst the greater proportion is omitted, in order to give place to more important and instructive matter."
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhistory
- hisotry
- hisstory
- historry
- historyy
- histoyr
- histroy
- histtory
- hitsory
- hsitory
- ihstory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of history - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "history", 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).