Hörnchen
[ˈhœʁnçən]
The verdict
“Hörnchen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #46,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,743
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner, aus einer harten keratinhaltigen Substanz bestehender, (gebogener) spitzer Auswuchs am Kopf einiger Tiere; kleines Horn
Corpus desk
Index DE-hornchen · Hörnchen · German
Hörnchen · rank #46,743 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Höchstleistun…
Nearest frequency peer: Höchstleistungen (-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 „Hörnchen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hoya
Hoya
53,262 corpus weight
- Höchstleist…
Höchstleistungen
53,259 corpus weight
- Hörnchen
Hörnchen
53,258 corpus weight
- Hüpfburg
Hüpfburg
53,257 corpus weight
- Information…
Informationssystem
53,254 corpus weight
- innige
innige
53,252 corpus weight
What this shows „Hörnchen“ 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 | Hörnchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhœʁnçən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hörnchen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Hörnchen (IPA [ˈhœʁnçən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,743 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hörnchen, with forms such as "hhörnchen", "hrönchen", and "hönrchen". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Höschen", "Hühnchen", "Hähnchen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Hörnchen, spelled H-Ö-R-N-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleiner, aus einer harten keratinhaltigen Substanz bestehender, (gebogener) spitzer Auswuchs am Kopf einiger Tiere; kleines Horn
- 2kurze, (halbkreisförmig) gebogene Nudel
- 3längliches Gebäck aus vor allem Blätter- oder Hefe- beziehungsweise Plunderteig, das (halbkreisförmig) gebogen ist
- 4trichterförmige Waffel, in die kleine Portionen Speiseeis gefüllt werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hörnchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auf den ersten Blick passen die Antilopen zueinander. Doch wer genau hinschaut, der wundert sich. Die einen sind groß, schwarz und tragen gewaltige Hörner. Die anderen reichen mit einer Größe von maximal 50 Zentimetern ihren Mitbewohnern höchstens bis zu den Knien, sind hellbraun und der Bock ist im Besitz von, sagen wir mal, Hörnchen.“
«In einer Voliere flattern Vögel, im Stall wiehern Pferde, zwischen deren Beinen sich junge Ziegen die Hörnchen stossen.»
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhörnchen
- hrönchen
- hönrchen
- hörcnhen
- hörncchen
- hörncehn
- hörnchenn
- hörnchhen
- hörnchne
- hörnhcen
- hörnnchen
- hörrnchen
- öhrnchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hörnchen - 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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