Assistenzhund
[asɪsˈtɛnt͡sˌhʊnt]
The verdict
“Assistenzhund” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - speziell ausgebildeter Hund, der Menschen mit Behinderung dabei hilft, behinderungsbedingte Nachteile auszugleichen
Corpus desk
Index DE-assistenzhund · Assistenzhund · German
Assistenzhund · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Assistenzhund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asɪsˈtɛnt͡sˌhʊnt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Assistenzhund” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Assistenzhund is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [asɪsˈtɛnt͡sˌhʊnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "speziell ausgebildeter Hund, der Menschen mit Behinderung dabei hilft, behinderungsbedingte Nachteile auszugleichen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Assistenzhund in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Assistenzhund, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-E-N-Z-H-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1speziell ausgebildeter Hund, der Menschen mit Behinderung dabei hilft, behinderungsbedingte Nachteile auszugleichen
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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.