Hausfrauen
[ˈhaʊ̯sˌfʁaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“Hausfrauen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,612
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Hausfrau
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 | Hausfrauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯sˌfʁaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hausfrauen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Hausfrauen (IPA [ˈhaʊ̯sˌfʁaʊ̯ən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,612 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hausfrauen, with forms such as "ahusfrauen", "hasufrauen", and "haufsrauen". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Hausfrau", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Hausfrauen, spelled H-A-U-S-F-R-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Hausfrau
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Hausfrau
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Hausfrau
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Hausfrau
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahusfrauen,hasufrauen,haufsrauen,hausfaruen,hausffrauen,hausfraeun,hausfrauenn,hausfraune,hausfrrauen,hausfruaen,hausrfauen,haussfrauen,hhausfrauen,huasfrauen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hausfrauen - 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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Using “Hausfrauen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-U-S-F-R-A-U-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhaʊ̯sˌfʁaʊ̯ən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Hausfrau” - see the side-by-side comparison. Hausfrauen vs Hausfrau
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.