Hofbräuhaus
[ˈhoːfbʁɔɪ̯ˌhaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“Hofbräuhaus” is uncommon German (frequency #75,771 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,771
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ein Haus, sprich eine Brauerei, die für einen königlichen/fürstlichen Hof Bier erzeugt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hofbräuhaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːfbʁɔɪ̯ˌhaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hofbräuhaus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hofbräuhaus is uncommon German at frequency #75,771 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːfbʁɔɪ̯ˌhaʊ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Hofbräuhaus has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hofbräuhaus, spelled H-O-F-B-R-Ä-U-H-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ein Haus, sprich eine Brauerei, die für einen königlichen/fürstlichen Hof Bier erzeugt
- 2Weltbekannte Gaststätte in München „Am Platzl“ der Brauerei „Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München“
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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Using “Hofbräuhaus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-F-B-R-Ä-U-H-A-U-S - 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.