Hochburg
[ˈhoːxˌbʊʁk]
The verdict
“Hochburg” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,608
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf einer Anhöhe gelegene Burg
Corpus desk
Index DE-hochburg · Hochburg · German
Hochburg · rank #19,608 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,608
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hinsetzen
Nearest frequency peer: hinsetzen (-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 „Hochburg“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hervorgebra…
hervorgebracht
80,396 corpus weight
- hingen
hingen
80,395 corpus weight
- hinsetzen
hinsetzen
80,394 corpus weight
- Hochburg
Hochburg
80,393 corpus weight
- Hysterie
Hysterie
80,392 corpus weight
- Häuptling
Häuptling
80,391 corpus weight
What this shows „Hochburg“ 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 | Hochburg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːxˌbʊʁk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hochburg“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Hochburg (IPA [ˈhoːxˌbʊʁk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,608 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hochburg, with forms such as "hcohburg", "hhochburg", and "hocbhurg". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Homburg", "Hochburgen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Hochburg, spelled H-O-C-H-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1auf einer Anhöhe gelegene Burg
- 2Zentrum einer politischen, kulturellen oder religiösen Bewegung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hochburg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Kolossi ist eine Hochburg ein paar Kilometer außerhalb der Stadt Limassol auf Zypern.“
„Zäh wehrten sich die Schuloberen und die Auszubildenden gegen die Zulassung von Schwarzen und Frauen - erst 1999 schaffte eine weibliche Absolventin den Abschluss. Es ist eine erzkonservative Hochburg, wie weite Teile South Carolinas.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hcohburg
- hhochburg
- hocbhurg
- hocchburg
- hochbburg
- hochbrug
- hochbugr
- hochburgg
- hochburrg
- hochhburg
- hochubrg
- hohcburg
- ohchburg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hochburg - 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 "Hochburg", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).