Hodensack
[ˈhoːdn̩ˌzak]
The verdict
“Hodensack” is uncommon German (frequency #66,326 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,326
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sackartige Hülle aus Haut und Muskeln, die die Keimdrüsen männlicher Säugetiere enthält
Corpus desk
Index DE-hodensack · Hodensack · German
Hodensack · rank #66,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,326
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hochkommen
Nearest frequency peer: hochkommen (-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 „Hodensack“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hirntod
Hirntod
33,678 corpus weight
- hirntot
hirntot
33,677 corpus weight
- hochkommen
hochkommen
33,676 corpus weight
- Hodensack
Hodensack
33,675 corpus weight
- Holzland
Holzland
33,673 corpus weight
- homes
homes
33,672 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hodensack“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hodensack |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːdn̩ˌzak] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hodensack“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hodensack is uncommon German at frequency #66,326 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːdn̩ˌzak]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sackartige Hülle aus Haut und Muskeln, die die Keimdrüsen männlicher Säugetiere enthält".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hodensack in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Hodensack, spelled H-O-D-E-N-S-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1sackartige Hülle aus Haut und Muskeln, die die Keimdrüsen männlicher Säugetiere enthält
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hodensack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unter der Dusche entdeckte er einen kleinen, verdächtigen Knoten am Hodensack.
Die Hodentemperatur wird dadurch geregelt, dass sich der Hodensack bei Kälte zusammenzieht, […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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