hochfahren
[ˈhoːxˌfaːʁən]
The verdict
“hochfahren” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,399
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nach Norden fahren auf eine Erhöhung fahren
Corpus desk
Index DE-hochfahren · hochfahren · German
hochfahren · rank #36,399 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,399
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hinzugezogen
Nearest frequency peer: hinzugezogen (-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 „hochfahren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hindus
Hindus
63,605 corpus weight
- Hintergedan…
Hintergedanken
63,604 corpus weight
- hinzugezogen
hinzugezogen
63,603 corpus weight
- hochfahren
hochfahren
63,602 corpus weight
- Hochrechnun…
Hochrechnungen
63,600 corpus weight
- hochzuladen
hochzuladen
63,599 corpus weight
What this shows „hochfahren“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hochfahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhoːxˌfaːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „hochfahren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around hochfahren (IPA [ˈhoːxˌfaːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,399 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for hochfahren, with forms such as "hcohfahren", "hhochfahren", and "hocchfahren". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is hochfahren, spelled H-O-C-H-F-A-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1nach Norden fahren auf eine Erhöhung fahren
- 2aufspringen, weil man sich über etwas aufregt oder erschrickt
- 3eine Anlage, zum Beispiel einen Computer, anschalten
- 4etwas über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg (langsam) (wieder) auf Höchstleistung bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hochfahren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morgen fährt Anton aus München zur Oma nach Hamburg hoch.
Um ans Ziel zu kommen, müssen Sie den Berg hochfahren. Wenn Sie hochgefahren sind, dann links halten.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hcohfahren
- hhochfahren
- hocchfahren
- hocfhahren
- hochafhren
- hochfahern
- hochfahhren
- hochfahrenn
- hochfahrne
- hochfahrren
- hochfarhen
- hochffahren
- hochfharen
- hochhfahren
- hohcfahren
- ohchfahren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hochfahren - 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 "hochfahren", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).