Hudson Bay
[ˈhat͡sn̩ ˈbeː]
The verdict
“Hudson Bay” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — tief in den nordamerikanischen Rumpf vorstoßendes, seichtes Binnenmeer, das im Norden durch mehrere Inseln teilweise abgeschlossen wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hudson Bay |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈhat͡sn̩ ˈbeː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hudson Bay” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hudson Bay is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhat͡sn̩ ˈbeː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "tief in den nordamerikanischen Rumpf vorstoßendes, seichtes Binnenmeer, das im Norden durch mehrere Inseln teilweise abgeschlossen wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hudson Bay in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Hudson Bay, spelled H-U-D-S-O-N- -B-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tief in den nordamerikanischen Rumpf vorstoßendes, seichtes Binnenmeer, das im Norden durch mehrere Inseln teilweise abgeschlossen wird
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- The one correct German spelling is H-U-D-S-O-N- -B-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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