Hauptgericht
[ˈhaʊ̯ptɡəˌʁɪçt]
The verdict
“Hauptgericht” is uncommon German (frequency #66,297 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,297
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - reichhaltigster, meist mittlerer Teil einer Mahlzeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-hauptgericht · Hauptgericht · German
Hauptgericht · rank #66,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,297
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hauptamtlicher
Nearest frequency peer: hauptamtlicher (-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 „Hauptgericht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hauchdünn
hauchdünn
33,707 corpus weight
- hauptamtlic…
hauptamtlicher
33,705 corpus weight
- Hauptgericht
Hauptgericht
33,704 corpus weight
- Hausbesetzer
Hausbesetzer
33,703 corpus weight
- hdl
hdl
33,701 corpus weight
- Heeresgruppe
Heeresgruppe
33,700 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hauptgericht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauptgericht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptɡəˌʁɪçt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hauptgericht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hauptgericht is uncommon German at frequency #66,297 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaʊ̯ptɡəˌʁɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "reichhaltigster, meist mittlerer Teil einer Mahlzeit".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hauptgericht, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Hauptgericht, spelled H-A-U-P-T-G-E-R-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1reichhaltigster, meist mittlerer Teil einer Mahlzeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hauptgericht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Doch der eigentliche Glanzpunkt der Offerten sind für mich eindeutig die Hauptgerichte.“
„Es gab Brennsuppe, als Hauptgericht Kartoffeln mit Soße und zum Nachtisch einen Apfel.“
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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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