hooks
[hʊks]
The verdict
“hooks” is uncommon German (frequency #68,339 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,339
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs hook
Corpus desk
Index DE-hooks · hooks · German
hooks · rank #68,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,339
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH humana
Nearest frequency peer: humana (+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 „hooks“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hirschmann
Hirschmann
31,666 corpus weight
- hochdeutsche
hochdeutsche
31,665 corpus weight
- hooks
hooks
31,662 corpus weight
- humana
humana
31,661 corpus weight
- hungert
hungert
31,660 corpus weight
- Hungertod
Hungertod
31,659 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hooks“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hooks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hʊks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hooks“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hooks is uncommon German at frequency #68,339 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hʊks]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs hook".
No misspelling variants are generated for hooks in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 hooks, spelled H-O-O-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs hook
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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