Hamburger Straße
The verdict
“Hamburger Straße” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Straße in 161 Orten in Deutschland, benannt nach der Stadt Hamburg
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hamburger Straße |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈʃtʁaːsə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hamburger Straße” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hamburger Straße is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈʃtʁaːsə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Straße in 161 Orten in Deutschland, benannt nach der Stadt Hamburg".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hamburger Straße 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 Hamburger Straße, spelled H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R- -S-T-R-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Straße in 161 Orten in Deutschland, benannt nach der Stadt Hamburg
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Using “Hamburger Straße”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R- -S-T-R-A-S-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈʃtʁaːsə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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