Spitzhacke
[ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə]
The verdict
“Spitzhacke” is an uncommon German word, ranked #83,324 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,324
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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
| 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) |
Where “Spitzhacke” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Spitzhacke is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,324 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Spitzhacke”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-P-I-T-Z-H-A-C-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌhakə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.