Hohlweg
[ˈhoːlˌveːk]
The verdict
“Hohlweg” is uncommon German (frequency #75,774 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,774
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Weg, der sich durch jahrhundertelange Nutzung mit Fuhrwerken und Vieh sowie abfließendes Regenwasser in das umgebende Gelände eingeschnitten hat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hohlweg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːlˌveːk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hohlweg” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hohlweg is uncommon German at frequency #75,774 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːlˌveːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Weg, der sich durch jahrhundertelange Nutzung mit Fuhrwerken und Vieh sowie abfließendes Regenwasser in das umgebende Gelände eingeschnitten hat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Hohlweg in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Hohlweg, spelled H-O-H-L-W-E-G.
Definition
- 1Weg, der sich durch jahrhundertelange Nutzung mit Fuhrwerken und Vieh sowie abfließendes Regenwasser in das umgebende Gelände eingeschnitten hat.
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 “Hohlweg”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-H-L-W-E-G - 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.