Homo
[ˈhoːmo]
The verdict
“Homo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,933
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homosexueller
Corpus desk
Index DE-homo · Homo · German
Homo · rank #7,933 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,933
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hofer
Nearest frequency peer: Hofer (-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 „Homo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- heilen
heilen
92,071 corpus weight
- herein
herein
92,070 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
92,069 corpus weight
- Homo
Homo
92,068 corpus weight
- Hunden
Hunden
92,066 corpus weight
- impulse
impulse
92,064 corpus weight
What this shows „Homo“ 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 | Homo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːmo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Homo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Homo (IPA [ˈhoːmo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,933 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Homosexueller".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Homo, with forms such as "hhomo", "hmoo", and "hommo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hör", "how", "hot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Homo, spelled H-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1Homosexueller
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Homo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manche meinen, dass man durch das Aussehen darauf schließen kann, ob jemand ein Homo ist.
„Am anderen Ende der Bar standen lauter Homos.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomo
- hmoo
- hommo
- hoom
- ohmo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Homo - 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 "Homo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).