hobby

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for hobby is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɒbi]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,358 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Tätigkeit, der man sich nicht aus Notwendigkeit, sondern freiwillig und aus Interesse, Faszination oder sogar Leidenschaft unterzieht und Vergnügen, Spaß oder Lustgewinn mit sich bringt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for hobby, with forms such as "hboby", "hhobby", and "hobbyy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "holy", "Horb", "honey", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 hobby, spelled H-O-B-B-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.