Halbaffe
[ˈhalpʔafə]
The verdict
“Halbaffe” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verwandter der Affen mit spitzer Schnauze und meist sehr großen Augen; vor allem auf Madagaskar aber auch in Afrika und Südasien (Unterordnung Prosimiae)
Corpus desk
Index DE-halbaffe · Halbaffe · German
Halbaffe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | Halbaffe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhalpʔafə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Halbaffe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Halbaffe is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhalpʔafə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Halbaffe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Halbaffe, spelled H-A-L-B-A-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Verwandter der Affen mit spitzer Schnauze und meist sehr großen Augen; vor allem auf Madagaskar aber auch in Afrika und Südasien (Unterordnung Prosimiae)
- 2roher, primitiver, ungeschlachter Mann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Halbaffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich sehe keinen Grund, in solch einer Abhandlung die Halbaffen beiseite zu lassen. Nur weil sie nicht besonders nah mit uns verwandt sind, sind sie doch keineswegs unterentwickelt oder primitiv im evolutionären Sinne.“
„Während die Halbaffen scheue Insektenfresser sind, leben die Anthropoiden tagaktiv und ernähren sich vermehrt von Nahrungsquellen, die leichter erreichbar sind, wie zum Beispiel Früchte.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.