hau ruck
[haʊ̯ ʁʊk]
The verdict
“hau ruck” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist in gleichmäßigem Rhythmus wiederholtes Kommando zum gleichzeitigen Bewegen eines schweren Gegenstandes
Corpus desk
Index DE-hau-ruck · hau ruck · German
hau ruck · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | hau ruck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [haʊ̯ ʁʊk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hau ruck“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hau ruck is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [haʊ̯ ʁʊk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "meist in gleichmäßigem Rhythmus wiederholtes Kommando zum gleichzeitigen Bewegen eines schweren Gegenstandes".
hau ruck has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hau ruck, spelled H-A-U- -R-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1meist in gleichmäßigem Rhythmus wiederholtes Kommando zum gleichzeitigen Bewegen eines schweren Gegenstandes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hau ruck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf mein Kommando ziehen wir alle gleichzeitig! Hau ruck! Hau ruck! Hau ruck!
„Weit wie der Himmel, hell wie die Sonne und schön // baun wir die Häuser, schnell soll’n die Kräne sich drehn. // Wir rufen: Hau ruck, hau ruck! Wir packen zu, und die Häuser erblühn! // Hau ruck, hau ruck! Für unser junges Berlin.“
This word in other languages
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.