harten Hunde
The verdict
“harten Hunde” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nominativ Plural der schwachen Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harten Hunde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʁtn̩ ˈhʊndə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harten Hunde” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for harten Hunde is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʁtn̩ ˈhʊndə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for harten Hunde 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 harten Hunde, spelled H-A-R-T-E-N- -H-U-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural der schwachen Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
- 2Genitiv Plural der schwachen Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
- 3Akkusativ Plural der schwachen Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
- 4Nominativ Plural der gemischten Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
- 5Genitiv Plural der gemischten Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
- 6Akkusativ Plural der gemischten Flexion des Substantivs harter Hund
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.
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Using “harten Hunde”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-R-T-E-N- -H-U-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaʁtn̩ ˈhʊndə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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