Hungen
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The verdict
“Hungen” is uncommon German (frequency #71,462 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,462
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-hungen · Hungen · German
Hungen · rank #71,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,462
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH huckepack
Nearest frequency peer: huckepack (-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 „Hungen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- huckepack
huckepack
28,540 corpus weight
- Hungen
Hungen
28,539 corpus weight
- hupt
hupt
28,538 corpus weight
- Hälse
Hälse
28,537 corpus weight
- häufigeren
häufigeren
28,536 corpus weight
- häuslich
häuslich
28,535 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Hungen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hungen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Hungen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Hungen is uncommon German at frequency #71,462 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hungen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Hungen, spelled H-U-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hungen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hungen liegt in der Mitte Hessens.
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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