auf Wiedersehen
[aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən]
The verdict
“auf Wiedersehen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist mündlicher Abschiedsgruß, der die förmliche Variante in Nord-, Mitteldeutschland und Österreich darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-auf-wiedersehen · auf Wiedersehen · German
auf Wiedersehen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | auf Wiedersehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „auf Wiedersehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
auf Wiedersehen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [aʊ̯f ˈviːdɐˌzeːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auf Wiedersehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie sagte: „Auf Wiedersehen!“ und verschwand in der Dunkelheit.
„Auf Wiedersehen!“ „Auf Wiedersehen, Frau Hoppenstedt!“
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.