aufspielen
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,978
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
aufspielen is aGermanverb. It means: sich als wichtig empfinden und prahlen; sich mehr Bedeutung zumessen, als einem zusteht Pronounced [ˈaʊ̯fˌʃpiːlən]. Often confused with ausspielen and abspielen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufspielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aufspielen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯fˌʃpiːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,978 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for aufspielen, with forms such as "afuspielen", "auffspielen", and "aufpsielen". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ausspielen", "abspielen", "anspielen", 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 aufspielen, spelled A-U-F-S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich als wichtig empfinden und prahlen; sich mehr Bedeutung zumessen, als einem zusteht
- 2anfangen, Musik zur Unterhaltung zu spielen
- 3ein Spiel in einer bestimmten Weise abliefern
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afuspielen,auffspielen,aufpsielen,aufsipelen,aufspeilen,aufspieeln,aufspielenn,aufspiellen,aufspielne,aufspileen,aufsppielen,aufsspielen,ausfpielen,uafspielen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aufspielen
Misspelling Variants of "aufspielen"
Frequency rank: #33,978 in German
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Nearby German words
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