Hose
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,968
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Hose is aGermannoun. It means: Kleidungsstück, das den Körper unterhalb der Taille (bis zu den Füßen) bedeckt und dabei jedes Bein einzeln umschließt. Der Plural ist auch für den Singular gebräuchlich, da eine Hose aus zwei Schl... Pronounced [ˈhoːzə]. It ranks #2,968 in German word frequency. Often confused with HSV and how.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hose |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːzə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hose is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhoːzə]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,968 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Hose, with forms such as "hhose", "hoes", and "hosse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HSV", "how", "hot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Hose, spelled H-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Kleidungsstück, das den Körper unterhalb der Taille (bis zu den Füßen) bedeckt und dabei jedes Bein einzeln umschließt. Der Plural ist auch für den Singular gebräuchlich, da eine Hose aus zwei Schläuchen (Hosen) besteht (vergleiche die Herkunft).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhose,hoes,hosse,hsoe,ohse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Hose
Misspelling Variants of "Hose"
Frequency rank: #2,968 in German
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