Hotdog
[ˈhɔtdɔk]
The verdict
“Hotdog” is an uncommon German word, ranked #64,368 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,368
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “Hotdog” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hotdog is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɔtdɔk]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,368 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Hotdog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-T-D-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhɔtdɔk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.