ausländisch
[ˈaʊ̯slɛndɪʃ]
The verdict
“ausländisch” is uncommon German (frequency #92,619 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,619
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - auf das Ausland bezogen oder sich auf das Ausland beziehend, in der Art und Weise des Auslandes; im Ausland ansässig, aus diesem stammend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausländisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯slɛndɪʃ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ausländisch” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ausländisch is uncommon German at frequency #92,619 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯slɛndɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf das Ausland bezogen oder sich auf das Ausland beziehend, in der Art und Weise des Auslandes; im Ausland ansässig, aus diesem stammend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ausländisch, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is ausländisch, spelled A-U-S-L-Ä-N-D-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1auf das Ausland bezogen oder sich auf das Ausland beziehend, in der Art und Weise des Auslandes; im Ausland ansässig, aus diesem stammend
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ausländisch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S-L-Ä-N-D-I-S-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.