Hotdog
[ˈhɔtdɔk]
The verdict
“Hotdog” is uncommon German (frequency #64,368 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,368
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fastfood, bestehend aus einem warmen Würstchen in einem länglichen Brötchen, das mit Senf oder Ketchup und gegebenenfalls weiteren Zutaten (etwa Röstzwiebeln, Sauerkraut, Remoulade, Mayonnaise oder...
Corpus desk
Index DE-hotdog · Hotdog · German
Hotdog · rank #64,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH housing
Nearest frequency peer: housing (+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 „Hotdog“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Horne
Horne
35,636 corpus weight
- horrenden
horrenden
35,635 corpus weight
- Hotdog
Hotdog
35,633 corpus weight
- housing
housing
35,632 corpus weight
- humorlos
humorlos
35,630 corpus weight
- hundertstel
hundertstel
35,629 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hotdog“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hotdog |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔtdɔk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hotdog“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hotdog is uncommon German at frequency #64,368 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɔtdɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fastfood, bestehend aus einem warmen Würstchen in einem länglichen Brötchen, das mit Senf oder Ketchup und gegebenenfalls weiteren Zutaten (etwa Röstzwiebeln, Sauerkraut, Remoulade, Mayonnaise oder...".
Hotdog has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Hotdog, spelled H-O-T-D-O-G.
Definition
- 1Fastfood, bestehend aus einem warmen Würstchen in einem länglichen Brötchen, das mit Senf oder Ketchup und gegebenenfalls weiteren Zutaten (etwa Röstzwiebeln, Sauerkraut, Remoulade, Mayonnaise oder Saure-Gurken-Scheiben) verzehrt wird; das Brötchen wird entweder aufgeschnitten oder aber der Länge nach ausgehöhlt, um das Würstchen darin zu platzieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hotdog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anlässlich seines elften Geburtstags gab es Hotdogs zum Essen.
„Touristen steigen aus ihren kleinen weißen Mietwagen, kaufen sich Süßigkeiten und Hotdogs.“
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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