Hofhund
[ˈhoːfˌhʊnt]
The verdict
“Hofhund” 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) - Hund, der zwecks Bewachung eines Anwesens außer Haus/auf dem Hof gehalten wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-hofhund · Hofhund · German
Hofhund · 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 | Hofhund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːfˌhʊnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hofhund“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hofhund is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːfˌhʊnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hund, der zwecks Bewachung eines Anwesens außer Haus/auf dem Hof gehalten wird".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hofhund, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Hofhund, spelled H-O-F-H-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Hund, der zwecks Bewachung eines Anwesens außer Haus/auf dem Hof gehalten wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hofhund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unser Hofhund ist schon halb taub.
„Der Hofhund strich kläffend um Wagen und Pferde herum.“
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.