Hotpants
German, noun/ˈhɔtpɛnts/
Hotpants is spelled H-O-T-P-A-N-T-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 73,335th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hotpants is a German noun meaning “hot pants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in den frühen 1970er Jahren für Frauen in Mode gekommene sehr enge und kurz geschnittene Hose, die den Po…”.
What does Hotpants mean in English?
noun
- 1
hot pants
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. in den frühen 1970er Jahren für Frauen in Mode gekommene sehr enge und kurz geschnittene Hose, die den Po betont
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Hotpants
- Hot Pants alternative
- Hot-Pants alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Hotpants?
- /ˈhɔtpɛnts/
- [ˈhɔtˌpɛnt͡s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Hotpants in German?
Hotpants appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).