Hongkongs
[ˈhɔŋkɔŋs]
The verdict
“Hongkongs” is uncommon German (frequency #79,302 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,302
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Hongkong
Corpus desk
Index DE-hongkongs · Hongkongs · German
Hongkongs · rank #79,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,302
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH homogenes
Nearest frequency peer: homogenes (-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 „Hongkongs“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hofnarr
Hofnarr
20,703 corpus weight
- Holzkiste
Holzkiste
20,701 corpus weight
- homogenes
homogenes
20,700 corpus weight
- Hongkongs
Hongkongs
20,699 corpus weight
- Horrorfilmen
Horrorfilmen
20,698 corpus weight
- Hostie
Hostie
20,697 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hongkongs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hongkongs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔŋkɔŋs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hongkongs“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hongkongs is uncommon German at frequency #79,302 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɔŋkɔŋs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Hongkong".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hongkongs, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Hongkongs, spelled H-O-N-G-K-O-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Hongkong
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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