Hundsstern
[ˈhʊnt͡sʃtɛʁn]
The verdict
“Hundsstern” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hellster Stern am Nachthimmel und im Sternbild Großer Hund
Corpus desk
Index DE-hundsstern · Hundsstern · German
Hundsstern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hundsstern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhʊnt͡sʃtɛʁn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hundsstern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hundsstern is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhʊnt͡sʃtɛʁn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hellster Stern am Nachthimmel und im Sternbild Großer Hund".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hundsstern, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
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 Hundsstern, spelled H-U-N-D-S-S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1hellster Stern am Nachthimmel und im Sternbild Großer Hund
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hundsstern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Links vom großen Jäger Orion strahlte der Hundsstern.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.