Hauskauf
[ˈhaʊ̯sˌkaʊ̯f]
The verdict
“Hauskauf” is uncommon German (frequency #55,396 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,396
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - käuflicher Erwerb eines Hauses
Corpus desk
Index DE-hauskauf · Hauskauf · German
Hauskauf · rank #55,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,396
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Haushaltes
Nearest frequency peer: Haushaltes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Hauskauf“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hauptsatz
Hauptsatz
44,607 corpus weight
- Haushaltes
Haushaltes
44,606 corpus weight
- Hauskauf
Hauskauf
44,605 corpus weight
- Hausnummern
Hausnummern
44,604 corpus weight
- Haustüren
Haustüren
44,603 corpus weight
- Heidenau
Heidenau
44,602 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hauskauf“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauskauf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaʊ̯sˌkaʊ̯f] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hauskauf“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hauskauf is uncommon German at frequency #55,396 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaʊ̯sˌkaʊ̯f]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "käuflicher Erwerb eines Hauses".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hauskauf, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hauskauf, spelled H-A-U-S-K-A-U-F.
Definition
- 1käuflicher Erwerb eines Hauses
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hauskauf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Kristensa erfuhr von dem Hauskauf erst, als sie aus dem Krankenhaus nach Hause kam.“
„Die sollten ihm einen Hauskauf ermöglichen.“
Antonyms
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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