Hauptjob
[ˈhaʊ̯ptˌd͡ʒɔp]
The verdict
“Hauptjob” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Arbeitsstelle, mit der man den größten oder ganzen Teil seines Lebensunterhalts verdient
Corpus desk
Index DE-hauptjob · Hauptjob · German
Hauptjob · 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 | Hauptjob |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌd͡ʒɔp] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hauptjob“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hauptjob is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌd͡ʒɔp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbeitsstelle, mit der man den größten oder ganzen Teil seines Lebensunterhalts verdient".
Hauptjob has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is Hauptjob, spelled H-A-U-P-T-J-O-B.
Definition
- 1Arbeitsstelle, mit der man den größten oder ganzen Teil seines Lebensunterhalts verdient
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hauptjob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Vor allem Menschen mit einem unterdurchschnittlichen Verdienst im Hauptjob hätten einen zusätzlichen Minijob, meint der Forscher.“
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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.