Hauptwerk
[ˈhaʊ̯ptˌvɛʁk]
The verdict
“Hauptwerk” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,168
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - wichtigstes Werk eines Künstlers, Wissenschaftlers …
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauptwerk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌvɛʁk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hauptwerk” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Hauptwerk (IPA [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌvɛʁk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,168 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hauptwerk, with forms such as "ahuptwerk", "haputwerk", and "haupptwerk". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 Hauptwerk, spelled H-A-U-P-T-W-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1wichtigstes Werk eines Künstlers, Wissenschaftlers …
- 2zentraler/wichtigster Teil, zentrale/wichtigste Niederlassung eines Unternehmens
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahuptwerk
- haputwerk
- haupptwerk
- hauptewrk
- haupttwerk
- hauptwekr
- hauptwerkk
- hauptwerrk
- hauptwrek
- hauptwwerk
- haupwterk
- hautpwerk
- hhauptwerk
- huaptwerk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hauptwerk - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Hauptwerk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-U-P-T-W-E-R-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌvɛʁk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.