hoc
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The verdict
“hoc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,937) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,937
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum des Pronomens hic
Corpus desk
Index DE-hoc · hoc · German
hoc · rank #17,937 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,937
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hinterland
Nearest frequency peer: Hinterland (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „hoc“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hersfeld
Hersfeld
82,067 corpus weight
- HH
HH
82,066 corpus weight
- Hinterland
Hinterland
82,065 corpus weight
- hoc
hoc
82,064 corpus weight
- häufigen
häufigen
82,062 corpus weight
- höchstem
höchstem
82,061 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „hoc“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | hoc |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „hoc“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hoc is neighbouring look-alikes ("HP", "Hz", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced […]. Frequency #17,937 among 3,372 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for hoc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HP", "Hz", "Hof", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is hoc, spelled H-O-C.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum des Pronomens hic
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum des Pronomens hic
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).