ausspannen
[ˈaʊ̯sˌʃpanən]
The verdict
“ausspannen” is uncommon German (frequency #54,349 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,349
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zugtiere vom gezogenen Fahrzeug trennen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ausspannen · ausspannen · German
ausspannen · rank #54,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,349
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ausländischem
Nearest frequency peer: ausländischem (-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 „ausspannen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ausgerissen
ausgerissen
45,655 corpus weight
- Ausgleichs
Ausgleichs
45,654 corpus weight
- ausländisch…
ausländischem
45,653 corpus weight
- ausspannen
ausspannen
45,652 corpus weight
- Aussprachen
Aussprachen
45,651 corpus weight
- auszubreiten
auszubreiten
45,649 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ausspannen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausspannen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃpanən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ausspannen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ausspannen is uncommon German at frequency #54,349 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃpanən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ausspannen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ausspannen, spelled A-U-S-S-P-A-N-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Zugtiere vom gezogenen Fahrzeug trennen
- 2sich eine Zeit der Ruhe gönnen
- 3den Partner wegnehmen, abspenstig machen
- 4Extremitäten ausstrecken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ausspannen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Knecht mußte ein Pferd ausspannen, obwohl er mißmutig in seinen Bart brummte und nur widerwillig dem Befehl seiner Herrin gehorchte.“
„Eigentlich wollen Sie doch einfach auch mal nur die Seele baumeln lassen, sich erholen und ausspannen.“
Antonyms
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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