hauchdünne
[ˈhaʊ̯xˌdʏnə]
The verdict
“hauchdünne” is an uncommon German word, ranked #75,749 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #75,749
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hauchdünne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯xˌdʏnə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hauchdünne” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hauchdünne is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʊ̯xˌdʏnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,749 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hauchdünne 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 hauchdünne, spelled H-A-U-C-H-D-Ü-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hauchdünn
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.
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Using “hauchdünne”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-U-C-H-D-Ü-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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