Hornung
[ˈhɔʁnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Hornung” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,976
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alte Bezeichnung für den Februar, den zweiten Monat des Jahres
Corpus desk
Index DE-hornung · Hornung · German
Hornung · rank #48,976 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,976
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Honolulu
Nearest frequency peer: Honolulu (-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 „Hornung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hochbegabte
hochbegabte
51,028 corpus weight
- hochkant
hochkant
51,027 corpus weight
- Honolulu
Honolulu
51,026 corpus weight
- Hornung
Hornung
51,025 corpus weight
- Hospitals
Hospitals
51,024 corpus weight
- Huldigung
Huldigung
51,022 corpus weight
What this shows „Hornung“ 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 | Hornung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔʁnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hornung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Hornung (IPA [ˈhɔʁnʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,976 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "alte Bezeichnung für den Februar, den zweiten Monat des Jahres".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hornung, with forms such as "hhornung", "honrung", and "hornnug". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Hartung", "Hörfunk", "Hoffnung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Hornung, spelled H-O-R-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1alte Bezeichnung für den Februar, den zweiten Monat des Jahres
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hornung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Hornung ist es meist noch kalt.
… der heiterste Himmel, der mitten im Hornung einen Maientag bildete … (Friedrich Schiller, Der Geisterseher)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhornung
- honrung
- hornnug
- hornnung
- hornugn
- hornungg
- hornunng
- horrnung
- horunng
- hronung
- ohrnung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hornung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Hornung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).