hopsgehen
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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hopsgehen is aGermanverb. It means: bei etwas zu Tode kommen Pronounced [ˈhɔpsˌɡeːən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hopsgehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɔpsˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for hopsgehen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɔpsˌɡeːən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hopsgehen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is hopsgehen, spelled H-O-P-S-G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei etwas zu Tode kommen
- 2verloren oder kaputt gehen
- 3bei einem Vergehen erwischt und zügig verhaftet werden
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