Blockhaus
[ˈblɔkˌhaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“Blockhaus” is uncommon German (frequency #54,394 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,394
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Gebäude aus fast unbehauenen Baumstämmen oder Balken
Corpus desk
Index DE-blockhaus · Blockhaus · German
Blockhaus · rank #54,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,394
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blasius
Nearest frequency peer: Blasius (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Blockhaus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Blaise
Blaise
45,611 corpus weight
- blanker
blanker
45,609 corpus weight
- Blasius
Blasius
45,608 corpus weight
- Blockhaus
Blockhaus
45,607 corpus weight
- Bläschen
Bläschen
45,605 corpus weight
- BMF
BMF
45,604 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blockhaus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blockhaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɔkˌhaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blockhaus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blockhaus is uncommon German at frequency #54,394 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈblɔkˌhaʊ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Gebäude aus fast unbehauenen Baumstämmen oder Balken".
No misspelling variants are generated for Blockhaus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Blockhaus, spelled B-L-O-C-K-H-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1ein Gebäude aus fast unbehauenen Baumstämmen oder Balken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blockhaus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Blockhäuser sind umweltfreundlich und haben ein gutes Raumklima.
„Hallows und Adams standen sich in der Mitte des Blockhauses gegenüber.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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