Hoffart
[ˈhɔfaʁt]
The verdict
“Hoffart” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arrogante, dünkelhafte Haltung
Corpus desk
Index DE-hoffart · Hoffart · German
Hoffart · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hoffart |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔfaʁt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hoffart“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hoffart is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɔfaʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "arrogante, dünkelhafte Haltung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hoffart, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
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 Hoffart, spelled H-O-F-F-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1arrogante, dünkelhafte Haltung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hoffart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der hl. Johannes unterscheidet drei Arten der Begehrlichkeit oder Begierde: die Begierde des Fleisches, die Begierde der Augen und die Hoffart der Welt (…).“
„Hart ist, was er fordert von uns, und seine Hoffart ohne Maß.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.