# How do you pronounce "dachshund"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864 "2012-12-03T16:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/81 "2012-12-04T04:57:15Z")
LOL! I like “ankle shark”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/82 "2012-12-04T05:04:04Z")
dock-sund ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/83 "2012-12-04T09:15:51Z")
Daks-hund, though I have heard dash-hund too. UK. There seem to be way more of those little dogs around the last few years. > [@Ibanez](#): > > Nah it isn’t, just anglicized . “The dog”. No, dachs means “badger,” not “the.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/84 "2012-12-04T09:26:58Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > I pronounce it “DOCKS hoond”. > > Side note: According to my Frankfurt friend who owns two, the Germans usually call 'em Dackel(n) instead. As a young child, I grew up with a dachshund. We were like brothers. It was always DOCKS-hund (rhymes with ROCKS, and the h was silent or nearly so). I occasionally used “dash-hound” just to be cute. I named him Doxie, after a dachshund that I saw occasionally on Saturday morning cartoons. In one cartoon scene, this dachshund is shown participating in a baseball game. When he ran around the bases, he could reach each base before leaving the previous base, so he never got tagged out. I haven’t seen that Germans called them Dackel. The German word that I have seen is Teckel. There was a famous championship bloodline of dachshunds called Heying-Teckel. I believe the family that raised them lived in the middle of an orange grove that was just two blocks away from where I grew up, in the San Fernando Valley. At least, there was a smallish inconspicuous sign at the entrance to the driveway. It was a small flat iron plate cut out in the silhouette of a dachshund shape, that said Heying-Teckel on it. I saw my dog’s pedigree once. It was full of Heying-Teckel dogs. I never knew at the time what the significance was. It was many years later, in another city far away, that I came across someone who knew of them and told me that they were a champion line. ETA: Okay, I see in Wikipedia that the German call them both Dackel and Teckel. > **[Dachshund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teckel)** > > Miniature Dachshund: 5–6 in (13–15 cm) at the withers > Miniature Dachshund: up to 11 pounds (5.0 kg) > The dachshund (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}UK: /ˈdækshʊnd, -ənd, -hʊnt/ DAKS-huund, -⁠ənd, -⁠huunt or US: /ˈdɑːkshʊnt, -hʊnd, -ənt/ DAHKS-huunt, -⁠huund, -⁠ənt; German: 'badger dog'), also known as the wiener dog or sausage d... ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/85 "2012-12-04T09:45:30Z")
DOG ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/86 "2012-12-04T10:25:44Z")
Voted german way. There is no K sound in there though, but a CH, like in the scottish word _loch_, or the correct way of pronouncing the name of composer _Bach_. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/87 "2012-12-04T12:46:16Z")
Doxund, though it really comes out more like doxen if truth be told. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/88 "2012-12-04T13:59:53Z")
> [@VanillaGorilla](#): > > Voted german way. There is no K sound in there though, but a CH, like in the scottish word _loch_, or the correct way of pronouncing the name of composer _Bach_. Maybe it depends on the dialect, but it really does sound more like a “k” to me in German. Listen to the second pronunciation [here](http://www.forvo.com/word/dachshund/), as pronounced by a German. Even the first sounds more like a “k” to me. (And, yes, I know a lot of Low German has ch-\>k, so “ich” becomes “ick.”) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/89 "2012-12-04T14:10:21Z")
The [Wiktionary](http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dachs)’s IPA for the _Dachs_ entry is [daks], not [daχs], so it looks like it is pronounced with a “k” in standard German. “Dach” (“roof”) gets [daχ], but “Dachs” (“badger”) becomes [daks]. I thought I had learned somewhere that “chs” becomes a [ks] instead of [χ]+[s]. See, for instance “Sechs” (“six”) or “Achsel” (“shoulder.”) ---
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In German, I’d use the actual German word, _Dackel_, pronounced [ˈdakl̩] (roughly, “duckl”). The word is a mild insult here in SW Germany BTW, with a somewhat stronger version _Halbdackel_, i.e. implying the insultee is not even a full dachshund. The English word I’d pronounce “duckshoond” (and I’d probably not be understood) ---
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In an English-speaking context I pronounce it as if it were written “doxen”, to rhyme with oxen. I haven’t heard anyone call them a “dash hound” since I was about 8 years old. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/92 "2012-12-04T17:44:42Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Woman at work: “…dash hound…” > gigi: 😕 > Woman at work: “You know, a weiner dog?” > gigi: :smack: Forgot to say, this was the same woman who told me there was no such word as “cannot”. And she went to a good school!! ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/93 "2012-12-04T18:14:55Z")
Colin. ---
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“DOX-in” Close to how most people are describing how they say it, but I don’t think I ever pronounce a “d” at the end. I know I learned this word before I ever saw it in print (hence no d at the end). I still don’t read “daschund” as “doxin” or even “dox-hoond”. I read it as “dash-hound” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/95 "2012-12-04T18:22:40Z")
Throatwarbler Mangrove? ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/96 "2012-12-05T00:59:59Z")
DOCKS-und. Or fur-ry bas-tard, depending on my mood. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/97 "2012-12-05T01:14:02Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Other: Gerglish DAHKS-und. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/98 "2012-12-05T01:46:05Z")
DOCKS-hoond (“oo” as in “wood”). Never had any pet as a kid, but there was always a family or two with dachshunds in the neighborhood, so I’ve had plenty of occasion to say the word since childhood. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864/99 "2012-12-05T02:52:31Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DOCKS-hoond (“oo” as in “wood”). Never had any pet as a kid, but there was always a family or two with dachshunds in the neighborhood, so I’ve had plenty of occasion to say the word since childhood. I meant to say in the first option in the poll that “oo” was like “wood.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-dachshund/642864.md?page=4)