Kettenhund
German, noun/ˈkɛtn̩ˌhʊnt/
Kettenhund is spelled K-E-T-T-E-N-H-U-N-D (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 192,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kettenhund is a German masculine noun meaning “guard dog, watchdog, bandog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Hund, der tagsüber meist an einer Kette angebunden ist”.
What does Kettenhund mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineguard dog, watchdog, bandog
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hund, der tagsüber meist an einer Kette angebunden ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kettenhund
- Kettenhundes genitive
- Kettenhunds genitive
- Kettenhunde plural
- Kettenhunden dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kettenhund?
- /ˈkɛtn̩ˌhʊnt/
- [ˈkɛtn̩ˌhʊnt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kettenhund in German?
Kettenhund appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).