hinlaufen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#95,721
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hinlaufen is aGermanverb. It means: sich schnell zu Fuß zu einem bestimmten Ort begeben Pronounced [ˈhɪnˌlaʊ̯fn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hinlaufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɪnˌlaʊ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hinlaufen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɪnˌlaʊ̯fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,721 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hinlaufen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is hinlaufen, spelled H-I-N-L-A-U-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich schnell zu Fuß zu einem bestimmten Ort begeben
- 2sich (mit mäßiger Geschwindigkeit) gehend irgendwohin begeben
- 3jemanden oder etwas sofort aufsuchen; sich unverzüglich an jemanden oder etwas wenden
- 4in eine bestimmte Richtung, zu eine bestimmte Stelle verlaufen
- 5(ohne erkennbares, festes Ziel) von einer Stelle zu einer anderen laufen
- 6gemächlich strömen; ohne große Ereignisse vor sich hin fließen
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #95,721 in German
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