Hauptinsel
[ˈhaʊ̯ptˌʔɪnzl̩]
The verdict
“Hauptinsel” is uncommon German (frequency #78,086 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,086
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wichtigste Insel einer Inselgruppe
Corpus desk
Index DE-hauptinsel · Hauptinsel · German
Hauptinsel · rank #78,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,086
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hautausschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Hautausschlag (+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 „Hauptinsel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Harlekin
Harlekin
21,919 corpus weight
- hasserfüllte
hasserfüllte
21,918 corpus weight
- Hatice
Hatice
21,917 corpus weight
- Hauptinsel
Hauptinsel
21,915 corpus weight
- Hautausschl…
Hautausschlag
21,914 corpus weight
- hebst
hebst
21,912 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hauptinsel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauptinsel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌʔɪnzl̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hauptinsel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hauptinsel is uncommon German at frequency #78,086 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌʔɪnzl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wichtigste Insel einer Inselgruppe".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hauptinsel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Hauptinsel, spelled H-A-U-P-T-I-N-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1wichtigste Insel einer Inselgruppe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hauptinsel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nachdem sie dort ihre Stellungen gesichert hatten, griffen sie die Hauptinsel an.“
„Bei einem Fährunglück in Japan sind am Samstag mindestens 87 Menschen verletzt worden. Wie die japanische Küstenwache mitteilte, war das Tragflächenboot auf dem Weg von der Hauptinsel Honshu zur Insel Sado.“
Antonyms
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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