hott
[hɔt]
The verdict
“hott” is an uncommon German word, ranked #89,085 in German word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #89,085
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Kommando für Zugtiere vorwärts zu gehen
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hott is 4 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɔt]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,085 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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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 “hott”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-T-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [hɔt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.