ausschweifend
[ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fn̩t]
The verdict
“ausschweifend” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - über das normale Maß verschwenderisch
Corpus desk
Index DE-ausschweifend · ausschweifend · German
ausschweifend · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausschweifend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fn̩t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ausschweifend” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ausschweifend is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "über das normale Maß verschwenderisch".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ausschweifend, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ausschweifend, spelled A-U-S-S-C-H-W-E-I-F-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1über das normale Maß verschwenderisch
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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.