Seehund
[ˈzeːˌhʊnt]
The verdict
“Seehund” is uncommon German (frequency #68,665 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,665
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter der zu den Hundsrobben gehörende Tierart
Corpus desk
Index DE-seehund · Seehund · German
Seehund · rank #68,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seeblick
Nearest frequency peer: Seeblick (-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 „Seehund“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schönbuch
Schönbuch
31,339 corpus weight
- Schürzen
Schürzen
31,338 corpus weight
- Seeblick
Seeblick
31,337 corpus weight
- Seehund
Seehund
31,336 corpus weight
- sehet
sehet
31,335 corpus weight
- seidig
seidig
31,334 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Seehund“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seehund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːˌhʊnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Seehund“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Seehund is uncommon German at frequency #68,665 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzeːˌhʊnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Seehund has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Seehund, spelled S-E-E-H-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Vertreter der zu den Hundsrobben gehörende Tierart
- 2Robbe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Seehund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Seehund war ein Heuler.
„Cook drehte nach Westen ab und hielt diesen Kurs ungefähr einen Monat lang, wobei außer Seehunden und Albatrossen wenig gesichtet wurde.“
Synonyms
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); 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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