herder
/ˈhɜːdə/
"herder" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“herder” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,171
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who herds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-herder · herder · English
herder · rank #41,171 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Herefordshire
Nearest frequency peer: Herefordshire (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “herder”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Hama
Hama
58,835 corpus weight
- Hanford
Hanford
58,834 corpus weight
- Hein
Hein
58,832 corpus weight
- herder
herder
58,830 corpus weight
- Herefordshi…
Herefordshire
58,829 corpus weight
- Hillsboro
Hillsboro
58,828 corpus weight
What this shows “herder” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | herder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɜːdə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “herder”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around herder (IPA /ˈhɜːdə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,171 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "One who herds.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for herder, with forms such as "ehrder", "hedrer", and "herdder". 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, "here", "Herr", "horde", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + … The correct English form is herder, spelled H-E-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who herds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how herder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: herdsman
Etymology
From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrder
- hedrer
- herdder
- herderr
- herdre
- heredr
- herrder
- hherder
- hreder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of herder - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "herder", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).