hours
[aʊə(ɹ)z]
The verdict
“hours” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,708
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs hour
Corpus desk
Index DE-hours · hours · German
hours · rank #28,708 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,708
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hochwertiges
Nearest frequency peer: hochwertiges (-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 „hours“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Herzberg
Herzberg
71,296 corpus weight
- historischem
historischem
71,295 corpus weight
- hochwertiges
hochwertiges
71,294 corpus weight
- hours
hours
71,293 corpus weight
- Hänsel
Hänsel
71,292 corpus weight
- Höchststand
Höchststand
71,291 corpus weight
What this shows „hours“ 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 | hours |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʊə(ɹ)z] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „hours“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hours (IPA [aʊə(ɹ)z]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,708 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs hour".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hours, with forms such as "hhours", "horus", and "hourrs". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "hus", "Hure", "hurt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is hours, spelled H-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs hour
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhours
- horus
- hourrs
- hourss
- housr
- huors
- ohurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hours - 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 "hours", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).