Gassenhauer
[ˈɡasn̩ˌhaʊ̯ɐ]
The verdict
“Gassenhauer” is uncommon German (frequency #91,632 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,632
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Lied, das auf allen Gassen gesungen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-gassenhauer · Gassenhauer · German
Gassenhauer · rank #91,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,632
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH ganzjährige
Nearest frequency peer: ganzjährige (-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 „Gassenhauer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gangnam
Gangnam
8,371 corpus weight
- ganzjährige
ganzjährige
8,370 corpus weight
- Gassenhauer
Gassenhauer
8,369 corpus weight
- gebeichtet
gebeichtet
8,368 corpus weight
- gedankenver…
gedankenverloren
8,367 corpus weight
- gedealt
gedealt
8,366 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gassenhauer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gassenhauer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡasn̩ˌhaʊ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gassenhauer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gassenhauer is uncommon German at frequency #91,632 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡasn̩ˌhaʊ̯ɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Lied, das auf allen Gassen gesungen wird".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gassenhauer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 Gassenhauer, spelled G-A-S-S-E-N-H-A-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1das Lied, das auf allen Gassen gesungen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gassenhauer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Einige frühere Gassenhauer sind noch heute bekannt, zum Beispiel: "Ausgerechnet Bananen."
„Auf der Florida, wo ich unter fünfundzwanzig Mann Besatzung (unter denen einundzwanzig Nationen vertreten waren) der einzige Deutsche war, sang ich oft einen etwas schlüpfrigen Gassenhauer vor mich hin, der damals gerade populär war.“
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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