ausgraben
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,044
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
ausgraben is aGermanverb. It means: mit einem Werkzeug (wie Schaufel oder dergleichen) oder mit den Händen aus dem Erdreich holen Pronounced [ˈaʊ̯sˌɡʁaːbn̩]. Often confused with austragen and ausrauben.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausgraben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌɡʁaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ausgraben is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯sˌɡʁaːbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,044 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for ausgraben, with forms such as "asugraben", "augsraben", and "ausgarben". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "austragen", "ausrauben", "Ausgrabung", 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 ausgraben, spelled A-U-S-G-R-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit einem Werkzeug (wie Schaufel oder dergleichen) oder mit den Händen aus dem Erdreich holen
- 2von Erdreich bedeckte, verschüttete Altertümer freilegen
- 3Vergangenes, Vergessenes wieder hervorholen, neu beleben
- 4Knollengemüse ernten, besonders Kartoffeln
- 5eine Vertiefung durch Graben herstellen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asugraben,augsraben,ausgarben,ausggraben,ausgrabben,ausgrabenn,ausgrabne,ausgraebn,ausgrbaen,ausgrraben,ausrgaben,aussgraben,uasgraben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ausgraben
Misspelling Variants of "ausgraben"
Frequency rank: #41,044 in German
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Nearby German words
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