haltet hintan
The verdict
“haltet hintan” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hintanhalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haltet hintan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌhaltət hɪntˈʔan] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haltet hintan” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for haltet hintan is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhaltət hɪntˈʔan]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for haltet hintan in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is haltet hintan, spelled H-A-L-T-E-T- -H-I-N-T-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hintanhalten
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs hintanhalten
- 32. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs hintanhalten
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Using “haltet hintan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-L-T-E-T- -H-I-N-T-A-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌhaltət hɪntˈʔan] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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