Hauptursache

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The German entry for Hauptursache is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʊ̯ptʔuːɐ̯ˌzaxə]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,412 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "entscheidender/wesentlicher Grund".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for Hauptursache, with forms such as "ahuptursache", "haputursache", and "haupptursache". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Hauptsache", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Hauptursache, spelled H-A-U-P-T-U-R-S-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.