australis
The verdict
“australis” is uncommon German (frequency #91,322 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,322
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - südlich, im Süden (auf der Südhalbkugel) gelegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | australis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “australis” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
australis is uncommon German at frequency #91,322 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "südlich, im Süden (auf der Südhalbkugel) gelegen".
No misspelling variants are generated for australis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 australis, spelled A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1südlich, im Süden (auf der Südhalbkugel) gelegen
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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Using “australis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-S - 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.