husten
[ˈhuːstn̩]
The verdict
“husten” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,111
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - heftig Luft aus der Lunge ausstoßen
Corpus desk
Index DE-husten · husten · German
husten · rank #10,111 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,111
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Humboldt
Nearest frequency peer: Humboldt (-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 „husten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hildesheim
Hildesheim
89,893 corpus weight
- hing
hing
89,892 corpus weight
- Humboldt
Humboldt
89,891 corpus weight
- husten
husten
89,890 corpus weight
- Hühner
Hühner
89,889 corpus weight
- Idealen
Idealen
89,888 corpus weight
What this shows „husten“ 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 | husten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhuːstn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „husten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around husten (IPA [ˈhuːstn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,111 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for husten, with forms such as "hhusten", "hsuten", and "husetn". 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, "Hüte", "Hütte", "hüten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is husten, spelled H-U-S-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1heftig Luft aus der Lunge ausstoßen
- 2jemandem etwas husten: ablehnend reagieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how husten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er musste wieder mal heftig husten.
Wenn du damit kommen solltest, werde ich Dir was husten.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhusten
- hsuten
- husetn
- hussten
- hustenn
- hustne
- hustten
- hutsen
- uhsten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of husten - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "husten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).