Otterhund

/[ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Otterhund is aGermannoun. It means: großer, rauhaariger, hellbrauner bis schwarzer Hund einer britischen Hunderasse, die von der FCI anerkannt ist und zur Gruppe der Laufhunde gehört Pronounced [ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt].

Key facts for Otterhund
PropertyValue
HeadwordOtterhund
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Otterhund is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Otterhund is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Otterhund in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Otterhund, spelled O-T-T-E-R-H-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    großer, rauhaariger, hellbrauner bis schwarzer Hund einer britischen Hunderasse, die von der FCI anerkannt ist und zur Gruppe der Laufhunde gehört
  2. 2
    zur Jagd auf Otter, aber auch Biber, abgerichteter Hund

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Otterhund"?
"Otterhund" is spelled O-T-T-E-R-H-U-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt].
What does "Otterhund" mean?
As a noun, "Otterhund" means: großer, rauhaariger, hellbrauner bis schwarzer Hund einer britischen Hunderasse, die von der FCI anerkannt ist und zur Gruppe der Laufhunde gehört
How do you pronounce "Otterhund"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Otterhund" is [ˈɔtɐˌhʊnt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Otterhund" come from?
"Otterhund" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.