hamlets

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The verdict

“hamlets” is uncommon German (frequency #91,708 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,708
frequency rank, German
3,372
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs hamlet

Corpus desk

Index DE-hamlets · hamlets · German

hamlets · rank #91,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,708
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,372
  • PHOTO-FINISH halbnackten

Nearest frequency peer: halbnackten (-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 „hamlets“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hamlets“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for hamlets
PropertyValue
Headwordhamlets
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#91,708
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „hamlets“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).hamletsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „halbnackten“ (#91,707), „Handfesseln“ (#91,709), „Hajek“ (#91,706). Unter 3,372 „H“-Lemmata liegt „hamlets“ bei #91,708. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hamlets is uncommon German at frequency #91,708 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs hamlet".

No generated misspelling entries exist for hamlets in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 hamlets, spelled H-A-M-L-E-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs hamlet

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hamlets"?
"hamlets" is spelled H-A-M-L-E-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "hamlets" mean?
As a noun, "hamlets" means: Plural des Substantivs hamlet
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hamlets", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list