Hufnagel
[ˈhuːfˌnaːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Hufnagel” is uncommon German (frequency #98,606 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,606
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmiedeeiserner Nagel, mit dem ein Hufeisen am Huf befestigt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-hufnagel · Hufnagel · German
Hufnagel · rank #98,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,606
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH humanitär
Nearest frequency peer: humanitär (+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 „Hufnagel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hormonthera…
Hormontherapie
1,398 corpus weight
- Hornbrille
Hornbrille
1,397 corpus weight
- Hufnagel
Hufnagel
1,395 corpus weight
- humanitär
humanitär
1,394 corpus weight
- huste
huste
1,393 corpus weight
- Hypophyse
Hypophyse
1,392 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hufnagel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hufnagel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhuːfˌnaːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hufnagel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hufnagel is uncommon German at frequency #98,606 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhuːfˌnaːɡl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schmiedeeiserner Nagel, mit dem ein Hufeisen am Huf befestigt wird".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hufnagel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Hufnagel, spelled H-U-F-N-A-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1schmiedeeiserner Nagel, mit dem ein Hufeisen am Huf befestigt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hufnagel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Bonner Professor – keiner der blöderen – meinte kürzlich mit einem Seufzer, nachdem er auseinandergesetzt hatte, daß ich ein fast unzurechnungsfähiger Phantast sein müsse, mich für andre zu quälen: »Wissen Sie, was ich gern tun würde, wenn ich nicht an Weib und Kind zu denken hätte? Hufnägel schmieden, den ganzen Tag Hufnägel schmieden! Ich glaube, d…
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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