Hotpants
[ˈhɔtˌpɛnt͡s]
The verdict
“Hotpants” is uncommon German (frequency #73,621 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,621
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in den frühen 1970er Jahren für Frauen in Mode gekommene sehr enge und kurz geschnittene Hose, die den Po betont
Corpus desk
Index DE-hotpants · Hotpants · German
Hotpants · rank #73,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,621
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 59,066
- PHOTO-FINISH honour
Nearest frequency peer: honour (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Hotpants”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- holprigen
holprigen
26,384 corpus weight
- Holzindustr…
Holzindustrie
26,383 corpus weight
- honour
honour
26,382 corpus weight
- Hotpants
Hotpants
26,380 corpus weight
- Huk
Huk
26,378 corpus weight
- hypnotisiert
hypnotisiert
26,376 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hotpants” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hotpants |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhɔtˌpɛnt͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hotpants” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hotpants is uncommon German at frequency #73,621 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhɔtˌpɛnt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in den frühen 1970er Jahren für Frauen in Mode gekommene sehr enge und kurz geschnittene Hose, die den Po betont".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hotpants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Hotpants, spelled H-O-T-P-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1in den frühen 1970er Jahren für Frauen in Mode gekommene sehr enge und kurz geschnittene Hose, die den Po betont
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.