ausstehen
[ˈaʊ̯sˌʃteːən]
The verdict
“ausstehen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,452
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erwartet werden, aber noch fehlen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ausstehen · ausstehen · German
ausstehen · rank #25,452 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH austoben
Nearest frequency peer: austoben (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „ausstehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ausgehalten
ausgehalten
74,552 corpus weight
- auslöschen
auslöschen
74,551 corpus weight
- ausstehen
ausstehen
74,549 corpus weight
- austoben
austoben
74,548 corpus weight
- Bahnlinie
Bahnlinie
74,547 corpus weight
- Ballast
Ballast
74,546 corpus weight
What this shows „ausstehen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausstehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃteːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ausstehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ausstehen (IPA [ˈaʊ̯sˌʃteːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,452 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ausstehen, with forms such as "asustehen", "aussethen", and "aussteehn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "aussuchen", "ausziehen", "aussteigen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ausstehen, spelled A-U-S-S-T-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1erwartet werden, aber noch fehlen
- 2etwas ertragen, durchhalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ausstehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die letzte Zahlung steht noch aus.
Der endgültige Beweis für die Richtigkeit seiner Theorie stand aber noch aus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asustehen
- aussethen
- aussteehn
- ausstehenn
- ausstehhen
- ausstehne
- ausstheen
- aussttehen
- austehen
- austsehen
- außtehen
- uasstehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ausstehen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ausstehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).