Hauptsatz
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,394
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Hauptsatz is aGermannoun. It means: besonders wichtiger Satz/wichtigster Satz in einem bestimmten Zusammenhang Pronounced [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzat͡s].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauptsatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzat͡s] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hauptsatz is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzat͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,394 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Hauptsatz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Hauptsatz, spelled H-A-U-P-T-S-A-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1besonders wichtiger Satz/wichtigster Satz in einem bestimmten Zusammenhang
- 2ein selbständiger Satz; d.h. er kann für sich allein verwendet werden
- 3Teilsatz in einem Satzgefüge, von dem mindestens ein anderer Teilsatz, ein Nebensatz, abhängig ist, und der selbst nicht abhängig ist
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Frequency rank: #55,394 in German
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