hott
[hɔt]
The verdict
“hott” is uncommon German (frequency #89,085 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,085
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kommando für Zugtiere vorwärts zu gehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hott · hott · German
hott · rank #89,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,085
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hosenbein
Nearest frequency peer: Hosenbein (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hott”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hobeln
Hobeln
10,921 corpus weight
- Holzhammer
Holzhammer
10,918 corpus weight
- Hosenbein
Hosenbein
10,917 corpus weight
- hott
hott
10,916 corpus weight
- Hufschmied
Hufschmied
10,915 corpus weight
- huschte
huschte
10,913 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hott” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [hɔt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hott” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hott is uncommon German at frequency #89,085 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [hɔt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hott, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hott, spelled H-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1Kommando für Zugtiere vorwärts zu gehen
- 2Kommando für Zugtiere nach rechts zu gehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hott appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hott, Brauner, hott!
Dass der Kutscher laut „hott!“ schrie, schien den Ochsen nicht zu interessieren.
Antonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
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