andauen
[ˈanˌdaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“andauen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (etwas) beginnen zu verdauen, nicht zu Ende verdauen
Corpus desk
Index DE-andauen · andauen · German
andauen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | andauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌdaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „andauen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
andauen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌdaʊ̯ən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(etwas) beginnen zu verdauen, nicht zu Ende verdauen".
andauen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 andauen, spelled A-N-D-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1(etwas) beginnen zu verdauen, nicht zu Ende verdauen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how andauen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Speichel daut die Nahrung bereits an.“
„In einem gerne zitierten Beispiel wies der Ornithologe Stanley Temple von der University of Wisconsin-Madison Ende der 1970er Jahre nach, dass die Samen des Baums angeblich nur dann keimen können, wenn sie zuvor von einem großen Vogel während der Darmpassage angedaut wurden.“
Antonyms
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.