Hofdame
[ˈhoːfˌdaːmə]
The verdict
“Hofdame” is uncommon German (frequency #70,395 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,395
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - adlige weibliche Person, die an einem Hof (zum Beispiel eines Fürsten) lebt
Corpus desk
Index DE-hofdame · Hofdame · German
Hofdame · rank #70,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,395
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hochzeitstorte
Nearest frequency peer: Hochzeitstorte (-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 „Hofdame“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hitz
hitz
29,611 corpus weight
- hochbegabt
hochbegabt
29,609 corpus weight
- Hochzeitsto…
Hochzeitstorte
29,607 corpus weight
- Hofdame
Hofdame
29,606 corpus weight
- Holzschnitt…
Holzschnitten
29,604 corpus weight
- humanistisc…
humanistischer
29,601 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hofdame“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hofdame |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːfˌdaːmə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hofdame“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hofdame is uncommon German at frequency #70,395 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːfˌdaːmə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "adlige weibliche Person, die an einem Hof (zum Beispiel eines Fürsten) lebt".
Hofdame doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Hofdame, spelled H-O-F-D-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1adlige weibliche Person, die an einem Hof (zum Beispiel eines Fürsten) lebt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hofdame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zusammen mit Rostows sollte Marja Ignatjewna Peronskaja auf den Ball gehen, eine Freundin und Verwandte der Gräfin, eine dürre und gelbliche Person, ehemals Hofdame der alten Kaiserin, die jetzt die Rostows als Provizialen in der großen Welt Petersburgs unter ihre Fittiche nahm.“
„Endlich sah er die Königin von der Fährbrücke her auf sich zukommen, eine Hofdame mit ihr, allem Anscheine nach das jüngere Fräulein von Viereck.“
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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