hud
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The verdict
“hud” is uncommon German (frequency #87,857 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,857
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunter liegenden Gewebes, der Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient; Haut
Corpus desk
Index DE-hud · hud · German
hud · rank #87,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,857
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hurst
Nearest frequency peer: hurst (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „hud“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hoops
hoops
12,149 corpus weight
- Hotlines
Hotlines
12,146 corpus weight
- hud
hud
12,144 corpus weight
- hurst
hurst
12,143 corpus weight
- Häfner
Häfner
12,140 corpus weight
- hörenden
hörenden
12,138 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hud“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hud |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #87,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hud“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hud is uncommon German at frequency #87,857 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hud, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 hud, spelled H-U-D.
Definition
- 1größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunter liegenden Gewebes, der Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient; Haut
- 2beim Tier auch die mit Haar bekleidete Haut; Fell
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tina har känslig hud hon måste sitta i skuggan.
Man tog prover av lejonens hud och skelett.
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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