Spitzhacke
[ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə]
The verdict
“Spitzhacke” is uncommon German (frequency #83,324 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,324
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Werkzeug, Arbeitsgerät zur Bearbeitung von Gestein, Eis oder härterem Erdreich, das aus einem zumeist hölzernen Stiel und einem auf diesem befestigten spitz zulaufenden Stück Metall besteht
Corpus desk
Index DE-spitzhacke · Spitzhacke · German
Spitzhacke · rank #83,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,324
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sportgelände
Nearest frequency peer: Sportgelände (+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 „Spitzhacke“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- spielerisch…
spielerisches
16,680 corpus weight
- Spielfluss
Spielfluss
16,679 corpus weight
- Spitzhacke
Spitzhacke
16,677 corpus weight
- Sportgelände
Sportgelände
16,676 corpus weight
- Spranger
Spranger
16,675 corpus weight
- Stadionspre…
Stadionsprecher
16,674 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Spitzhacke“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spitzhacke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Spitzhacke“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Spitzhacke is uncommon German at frequency #83,324 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Werkzeug, Arbeitsgerät zur Bearbeitung von Gestein, Eis oder härterem Erdreich, das aus einem zumeist hölzernen Stiel und einem auf diesem befestigten spitz zulaufenden Stück Metall besteht".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Spitzhacke, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Spitzhacke, spelled S-P-I-T-Z-H-A-C-K-E.
Definition
- 1Werkzeug, Arbeitsgerät zur Bearbeitung von Gestein, Eis oder härterem Erdreich, das aus einem zumeist hölzernen Stiel und einem auf diesem befestigten spitz zulaufenden Stück Metall besteht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spitzhacke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit Dynamit und Spitzhacke haben Arbeiter die Straßen aus dem Fels gesprengt und gehauen.“
„Alles, was ich noch finde, sind zwei im Sand verlorene Teelöffel und die Spitzhacke, die die Schatzgräber hier vergaßen.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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