Alaun
[aˈlaʊ̯n]
The verdict
“Alaun” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schwefelsaures Doppelsalz meist von Kalium oder Aluminium, das zum Beizen, Färben und zum Stillen von Blutungen verwendet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-alaun · Alaun · German
Alaun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alaun |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈlaʊ̯n] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Alaun“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Alaun is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈlaʊ̯n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schwefelsaures Doppelsalz meist von Kalium oder Aluminium, das zum Beizen, Färben und zum Stillen von Blutungen verwendet wird".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Alaun, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Alaun, spelled A-L-A-U-N.
Definition
- 1schwefelsaures Doppelsalz meist von Kalium oder Aluminium, das zum Beizen, Färben und zum Stillen von Blutungen verwendet wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alaun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dafür erwies sich Alaun als Mittel der Wahl.“
„Danach mußten sich die löslichen Substanzen, schwefelsaures Eisen und Alaun, von den unlöslichen, Kieselerde, verbrannte Kohle und Asche, getrennt haben.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.