hinterherlaufen
The verdict
“hinterherlaufen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #56,219 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #56,219
- frequency rank, German
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: jemandem laufend nachgehen, folgen; hinter jemandem oder etwas her laufen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hinterherlaufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɪntɐˈheːɐ̯ˌlaʊ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #56,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hinterherlaufen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hinterherlaufen is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɪntɐˈheːɐ̯ˌlaʊ̯fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,219 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hinterherlaufen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 hinterherlaufen, spelled H-I-N-T-E-R-H-E-R-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
- 1jemandem laufend nachgehen, folgen; hinter jemandem oder etwas her laufen
- 2jemanden oder etwas aufmerksam verfolgen, im Blick behalten; sich sehr um jemanden oder etwas bemühen
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Frequency rank: #56,219 in German
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Using “hinterherlaufen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-I-N-T-E-R-H-E-R-L-A-U-F-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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