auspeitschen
[ˈaʊ̯sˌpaɪ̯t͡ʃn̩]
The verdict
“auspeitschen” is uncommon German (frequency #68,023 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,023
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden mit einer Peitsche schlagen, für gewöhnlich einen Wehrlosen oder Angebundenen als Bestrafung
Corpus desk
Index DE-auspeitschen · auspeitschen · German
auspeitschen · rank #68,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,023
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ausgeholfen
Nearest frequency peer: ausgeholfen (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „auspeitschen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- auseinander…
auseinandergenommen
31,980 corpus weight
- ausgeholfen
ausgeholfen
31,979 corpus weight
- auspeitschen
auspeitschen
31,978 corpus weight
- ausradiert
ausradiert
31,977 corpus weight
- aussagekräf…
aussagekräftiger
31,976 corpus weight
- aussichtsre…
aussichtsreich
31,975 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „auspeitschen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auspeitschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌpaɪ̯t͡ʃn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „auspeitschen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
auspeitschen is uncommon German at frequency #68,023 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯sˌpaɪ̯t͡ʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemanden mit einer Peitsche schlagen, für gewöhnlich einen Wehrlosen oder Angebundenen als Bestrafung".
No misspelling variants are generated for auspeitschen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 auspeitschen, spelled A-U-S-P-E-I-T-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden mit einer Peitsche schlagen, für gewöhnlich einen Wehrlosen oder Angebundenen als Bestrafung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how auspeitschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Nordamerika wurden die afrikanischen Sklaven zur Bestrafung oft ausgepeitscht.
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); 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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