Ausguck
German, noun/ˈaʊ̯skʊk/
Ausguck is spelled A-U-S-G-U-C-K (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausguck is a German masculine noun meaning “crow's nest, lookout” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “erhöhte Stelle auf einem Schiff, von der aus man möglichst weit sehen kann”.
What does Ausguck mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrow's nest, lookout
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. erhöhte Stelle auf einem Schiff, von der aus man möglichst weit sehen kann 2. Person (Seemann), die einen Ausguck (nach [1]) innehat und Ausschau hält 3. Stelle, von der aus man etwas beobachten kann
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Ausguck
- Ausguckes genitive
- Ausgucks genitive
- Ausgucke plural
- Ausgucken dative definite plural
- Auskuck alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Ausguck?
- /ˈaʊ̯skʊk/
- /ˈaʊ̯sɡʊk/
- [ˈaʊ̯sɡʊk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Ausguck in German?
Ausguck appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).