Hugo
[ˈhuːɡo]
The verdict
“Hugo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,849
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Getränk aus Prosecco, Sirup von Holunderblüten oder Zitronenmelisse und Soda-/Mineralwasser, garniert mit Minzblättchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hugo · Hugo · German
Hugo · rank #5,849 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,849
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH identifiziert
Nearest frequency peer: identifiziert (+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 „Hugo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- haaren
haaren
94,156 corpus weight
- Hektar
Hektar
94,155 corpus weight
- Herausforde…
Herausforderungen
94,154 corpus weight
- Hugo
Hugo
94,152 corpus weight
- identifizie…
identifiziert
94,151 corpus weight
- Innsbruck
Innsbruck
94,148 corpus weight
What this shows „Hugo“ 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 | Hugo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhuːɡo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hugo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Hugo (IPA [ˈhuːɡo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,849 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Getränk aus Prosecco, Sirup von Holunderblüten oder Zitronenmelisse und Soda-/Mineralwasser, garniert mit Minzblättchen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hugo, with forms such as "hguo", "hhugo", and "huggo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hut", "hus", "hum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Hugo, spelled H-U-G-O.
Definition
- 1Getränk aus Prosecco, Sirup von Holunderblüten oder Zitronenmelisse und Soda-/Mineralwasser, garniert mit Minzblättchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hugo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als ich Anfang voriger Woche auf Mallorca, wo man sich mit derlei ja wohl auskennen müsste, stoisch »so was wie Spritz, aber mal was Neues« bestellt habe, empfahl der Kellner einen Hugo. Wie süß. Wann hatte dieses Getränk noch mal versucht, den Spritz abzulösen? 2010?“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hguo
- hhugo
- huggo
- huog
- uhgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hugo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Hugo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).