auch
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#21
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
auch is anGermanadv. It means: und ferner Pronounced [aʊ̯x]. It ranks #21 in German word frequency. Often confused with auf and aus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [aʊ̯x] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auch is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯x]. Corpus data places it at rank #21 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "und ferner".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for auch, with forms such as "acuh", "aucch", and "auchh". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "auf", "aus", "Aue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is auch, spelled A-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1und ferner
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acuh,aucch,auchh,auhc,uach
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for auch
Misspelling Variants of "auch"
Frequency rank: #21 in German
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: