Haudegen
[ˈhaʊ̯ˌdeːɡn̩]
The verdict
“Haudegen” is uncommon German (frequency #71,433 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,433
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im 17. Jahrhundert benutzter Degen mit zwei Schneiden zum Hauen und Schlagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-haudegen · Haudegen · German
Haudegen · rank #71,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH harp
Nearest frequency peer: harp (-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 „Haudegen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hahns
Hahns
28,573 corpus weight
- Handreichung
Handreichung
28,571 corpus weight
- harp
harp
28,569 corpus weight
- Haudegen
Haudegen
28,568 corpus weight
- Hauptlast
Hauptlast
28,567 corpus weight
- hauptverant…
hauptverantwortlich
28,565 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Haudegen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Haudegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ˌdeːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Haudegen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Haudegen is uncommon German at frequency #71,433 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaʊ̯ˌdeːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Haudegen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Haudegen, spelled H-A-U-D-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1im 17. Jahrhundert benutzter Degen mit zwei Schneiden zum Hauen und Schlagen
- 2übertragen von der Waffe: Soldat mit Kampferfahrungen, der sich durch seine verwegene und draufgängerische Art auszeichnet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Haudegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Großvater war ein alter Haudegen.
„Als ich dem Burschen den Brief zeigte und ihm seine Lüge vorwarf, erklärte er mir, er wäre so gern in das Heer eingetreten und habe geglaubt, er müsse sich dann als Haudegen aufspielen; ich möge ihm doch verzeihen, auch wegen des Märchens, daß ihm seine Mutter Geld schicken werde.“
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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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