dachshund

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The English entry for dachshund is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɑːksˌhʊnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #44,721 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for dachshund, with forms such as "adchshund", "dacchshund", and "dachhshund". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

Etymologically, the entry records: From German Dachshund (“badger dog”); Dachs (“badger”) + Hund (“dog”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is dachshund, spelled D-A-C-H-S-H-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.