ausrüsten
[ˈaʊ̯sˌʁʏstn̩]
The verdict
“ausrüsten” is uncommon German (frequency #58,581 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,581
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jemanden/etwas mit Dingen/Geräten versehen, die für etwas benötigt werden oder nützlich sind
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausrüsten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌʁʏstn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ausrüsten” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ausrüsten is uncommon German at frequency #58,581 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯sˌʁʏstn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ausrüsten in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ausrüsten, spelled A-U-S-R-Ü-S-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden/etwas mit Dingen/Geräten versehen, die für etwas benötigt werden oder nützlich sind
- 2einen Stoff veredeln
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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Using “ausrüsten”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S-R-Ü-S-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.