Honk
[hɔŋk]
The verdict
“Honk” is uncommon German (frequency #59,734 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,734
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Mensch, der sich nicht besonders klug anstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-honk · Honk · German
Honk · rank #59,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,734
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hofladen
Nearest frequency peer: Hofladen (-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 „Honk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hingearbeit…
hingearbeitet
40,271 corpus weight
- Hofladen
Hofladen
40,268 corpus weight
- Honk
Honk
40,267 corpus weight
- honorieren
honorieren
40,266 corpus weight
- hopf
hopf
40,265 corpus weight
- hora
hora
40,264 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Honk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɔŋk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Honk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Honk is uncommon German at frequency #59,734 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hɔŋk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Mensch, der sich nicht besonders klug anstellt".
Zero misspellings are on record for Honk in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Honk, spelled H-O-N-K.
Definition
- 1ein Mensch, der sich nicht besonders klug anstellt
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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