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Hauptzug

German, noun

Hauptzug is spelled H-A-U-P-T-Z-U-G (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written German, the 428,887th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hauptzug is a German masculine noun meaning “principal characteristic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Hauptzug mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineprincipal characteristic

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Hauptzug

  • Hauptzuges genitive
  • Hauptzugs genitive
  • Hauptzüge plural
  • Hauptzuge dative singular
  • Hauptzügen dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Hauptzug in German?

Hauptzug appears about once in every 50 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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