Hofdame
[ˈhoːfˌdaːmə]
The verdict
“Hofdame” is uncommon German (frequency #70,395 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,395
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - adlige weibliche Person, die an einem Hof (zum Beispiel eines Fürsten) lebt
| 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) |
Where “Hofdame” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hofdame is uncommon German at frequency #70,395 among 59,066 “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
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 “Hofdame”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-F-D-A-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhoːfˌdaːmə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.