DHCP
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The verdict
“DHCP” is uncommon German (frequency #75,527 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,527
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Corpus desk
Index DE-dhcp · DHCP · German
DHCP · rank #75,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,527
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dezernent
Nearest frequency peer: Dezernent (-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 „DHCP“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- deskriptiv
deskriptiv
24,477 corpus weight
- Determinism…
Determinismus
24,476 corpus weight
- Dezernent
Dezernent
24,475 corpus weight
- DHCP
DHCP
24,474 corpus weight
- dichtgemacht
dichtgemacht
24,473 corpus weight
- Dienerschaft
Dienerschaft
24,472 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „DHCP“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DHCP |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „DHCP“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
DHCP is uncommon German at frequency #75,527 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol".
DHCP has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is DHCP, spelled D-H-C-P.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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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