Hader
"hader" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hader” is uncommon English (frequency #58,733 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,733
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from German.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hader |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hader” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hader is uncommon English at frequency #58,733 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hader, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (“fight, battle”). * Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (“rags, tattered clothes”). * Also as a German surname, variant of Heider. The correct English form is Hader, spelled H-A-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
- 2An unincorporated community in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.
Etymology
* As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (“fight, battle”). * Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (“rags, tattered clothes”). * Also as a German surname, variant of Heider.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Hader”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-A-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.