Hörstel
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The verdict
“Hörstel” is uncommon German (frequency #67,342 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,342
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-horstel · Hörstel · German
Hörstel · rank #67,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,342
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hüben
Nearest frequency peer: hüben (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Hörstel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hunting
hunting
32,663 corpus weight
- Hydrolyse
Hydrolyse
32,662 corpus weight
- Höhenlagen
Höhenlagen
32,661 corpus weight
- Hörstel
Hörstel
32,659 corpus weight
- hüben
hüben
32,658 corpus weight
- Idealbild
Idealbild
32,654 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hörstel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hörstel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hörstel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hörstel is uncommon German at frequency #67,342 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hörstel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Hörstel, spelled H-Ö-R-S-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hörstel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hörstel liegt im Westen Deutschlands.
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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