# wait vs wau

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### wait
*verb · IPA [weɪt] · frequency rank #20,121*
warten, abwarten

### wau
*intj · IPA [vaʊ̯] · frequency rank #39,137*
Laut, der beim Bellen eines Hundes entsteht

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/wait-vs-wau