hdl
The verdict
“hdl” is uncommon German (frequency #66,300 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,300
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - hab dich lieb
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hdl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hdl” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hdl is uncommon German at frequency #66,300 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hab dich lieb".
hdl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hdl, spelled H-D-L.
Definition
- 1hab dich lieb
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 “hdl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-D-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.