auf Wiedersehen
[aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən]
The verdict
“auf Wiedersehen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - meist mündlicher Abschiedsgruß, der die förmliche Variante in Nord-, Mitteldeutschland und Österreich darstellt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf Wiedersehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf Wiedersehen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf Wiedersehen is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "meist mündlicher Abschiedsgruß, der die förmliche Variante in Nord-, Mitteldeutschland und Österreich darstellt".
auf Wiedersehen has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 auf Wiedersehen, spelled A-U-F- -W-I-E-D-E-R-S-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1meist mündlicher Abschiedsgruß, der die förmliche Variante in Nord-, Mitteldeutschland und Österreich darstellt
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.
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Using “auf Wiedersehen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F- -W-I-E-D-E-R-S-E-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.