Honecker
[ˈhɔnɛkɐ]
The verdict
“Honecker” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,764
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
Corpus desk
Index DE-honecker · Honecker · German
Honecker · rank #22,764 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,764
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hingeht
Nearest frequency peer: hingeht (-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 „Honecker“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- himmlische
himmlische
77,239 corpus weight
- hingeht
hingeht
77,238 corpus weight
- Honecker
Honecker
77,237 corpus weight
- Horizonte
Horizonte
77,236 corpus weight
- Hubraum
Hubraum
77,235 corpus weight
- Hypothek
Hypothek
77,234 corpus weight
What this shows „Honecker“ 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 | Honecker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔnɛkɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Honecker“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Honecker (IPA [ˈhɔnɛkɐ]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,764 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Honecker, with forms such as "hhonecker", "hnoecker", and "hoencker". 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, "Hocker", "Hecker", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Honecker, spelled H-O-N-E-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Honecker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Margret Honecker ist die Tochter von Willibald Honecker.
„Und Honecker war es auch, der 1952 die Einführung des Schießunterrichts, des Fallschirmspringens und des Motorfliegens bei der FDJ verkündete.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhonecker
- hnoecker
- hoencker
- honceker
- honeccker
- honecekr
- honeckerr
- honeckker
- honeckre
- honekcer
- honnecker
- ohnecker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Honecker - 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 "Honecker", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).