Hauptsache
[ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzaxə]
The verdict
“Hauptsache” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,453
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Wichtigste; das Entscheidende; das, worum es am meisten geht
Corpus desk
Index DE-hauptsache · Hauptsache · German
Hauptsache · rank #3,453 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,453
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Göttingen
Nearest frequency peer: Göttingen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Hauptsache“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gesammelt
gesammelt
96,551 corpus weight
- guck
guck
96,550 corpus weight
- Göttingen
Göttingen
96,549 corpus weight
- Hauptsache
Hauptsache
96,548 corpus weight
- Henry
Henry
96,547 corpus weight
- heutzutage
heutzutage
96,546 corpus weight
What this shows „Hauptsache“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauptsache |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzaxə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Hauptsache“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Hauptsache (IPA [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzaxə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,453 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "das Wichtigste; das Entscheidende; das, worum es am meisten geht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hauptsache, with forms such as "ahuptsache", "haputsache", and "haupptsache". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Hauptursache", "Hauptfach", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Hauptsache, spelled H-A-U-P-T-S-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1das Wichtigste; das Entscheidende; das, worum es am meisten geht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hauptsache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir haben uns nicht beliebt gemacht, aber Hauptsache wir haben es geschafft.
„St. Arnaud war nicht da, das war doch schließlich die Hauptsache, das gab den Ausschlag, und weder seine Blicke noch seine spöttischen Bemerkungen konnten das Glück ihres Beisammenseins stören.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahuptsache
- haputsache
- haupptsache
- haupstache
- hauptasche
- hauptsacche
- hauptsaceh
- hauptsachhe
- hauptsahce
- hauptscahe
- hauptssache
- haupttsache
- hautpsache
- hhauptsache
- huaptsache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hauptsache - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hauptsache", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).