halbstark
[ˈhalpˌʃtaʁk]
The verdict
“halbstark” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - umgangssprachlich, abwertend: (in Bezug auf Jugendliche, Gruppen von Jugendlichen) mit lautem, aggressivem, provozierendem öffentlichen Auftreten
Corpus desk
Index DE-halbstark · halbstark · German
halbstark · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | halbstark |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhalpˌʃtaʁk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „halbstark“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
halbstark is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈhalpˌʃtaʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "umgangssprachlich, abwertend: (in Bezug auf Jugendliche, Gruppen von Jugendlichen) mit lautem, aggressivem, provozierendem öffentlichen Auftreten".
halbstark doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 halbstark, spelled H-A-L-B-S-T-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1umgangssprachlich, abwertend: (in Bezug auf Jugendliche, Gruppen von Jugendlichen) mit lautem, aggressivem, provozierendem öffentlichen Auftreten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how halbstark appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Schülerschaft, die sich aufmüpfig und halbstark, lieb und entzückend, wissbegierig und bocklos zu Wort meldet, wirkte in Matthes Interpretation sämtlich debil, grölte so tumb herum, wie garantiert noch nie ein Kind geklungen hat.“
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.