sicherheitshalber
[ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t͡sˌhalbɐ]
The verdict
“sicherheitshalber” has 27 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,934
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 27
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zur Sicherheit, aus Vorsicht, um ganz sicher zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-sicherheitshalber · sicherheitshalber · German
sicherheitshalber · rank #27,934 · 27 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,934
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 27 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seufz
Nearest frequency peer: seufz (-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 „sicherheitshalber“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- selbige
selbige
72,070 corpus weight
- select
select
72,069 corpus weight
- seufz
seufz
72,068 corpus weight
- sicherheits…
sicherheitshalber
72,067 corpus weight
- Sichten
Sichten
72,066 corpus weight
- Silben
Silben
72,065 corpus weight
What this shows „sicherheitshalber“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sicherheitshalber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t͡sˌhalbɐ] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #27,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 27 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „sicherheitshalber“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 27 spelling variants around sicherheitshalber (IPA [ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t͡sˌhalbɐ]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #27,934 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zur Sicherheit, aus Vorsicht, um ganz sicher zu sein".
Our generated misspelling index lists 27 likely wrong-spelling variants for sicherheitshalber, with forms such as "ischerheitshalber", "sciherheitshalber", and "siccherheitshalber". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is sicherheitshalber, spelled S-I-C-H-E-R-H-E-I-T-S-H-A-L-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1zur Sicherheit, aus Vorsicht, um ganz sicher zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sicherheitshalber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weil der Wetterdienst vor Unwetter mit Blitz und Donner warnte, zog er sicherheitshalber alle Stecker von elektrischen Geräten aus den Steckdosen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ischerheitshalber
- sciherheitshalber
- siccherheitshalber
- sicehrheitshalber
- sichehreitshalber
- sicherehitshalber
- sicherheisthalber
- sicherheithsalber
- sicherheitsahlber
- sicherheitshabler
- sicherheitshalbber
- sicherheitshalberr
- sicherheitshalbre
- sicherheitshalebr
- sicherheitshallber
- sicherheitshhalber
- sicherheitshlaber
- sicherheitsshalber
- sicherheittshalber
- sicherhetishalber
- sicherhheitshalber
- sicherhietshalber
- sicherrheitshalber
- sichherheitshalber
- sichreheitshalber
- sihcerheitshalber
- ssicherheitshalber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sicherheitshalber - 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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