Austrasien
[aʊ̯sˈtʁaːzi̯ən]
The verdict
“Austrasien” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (nord-)östlich gelegenes Teilreich des (merowingischen) Frankenreichs (6.–8. Jahrhundert)
Corpus desk
Index DE-austrasien · Austrasien · German
Austrasien · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | Austrasien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʊ̯sˈtʁaːzi̯ən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Austrasien“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Austrasien is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aʊ̯sˈtʁaːzi̯ən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(nord-)östlich gelegenes Teilreich des (merowingischen) Frankenreichs (6.–8. Jahrhundert)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Austrasien, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Austrasien, spelled A-U-S-T-R-A-S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1(nord-)östlich gelegenes Teilreich des (merowingischen) Frankenreichs (6.–8. Jahrhundert)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Austrasien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es wäre irreführend, den Namen Austrasien – ‚das östliche Land‘ – wörtlich zu verstehen, da zu diesem Reichsteil nicht nur die Ostgebiete zwischen Rhein und Maas und die von Theuderich und seinem Sohn Theudebert eroberten Gebiete östlich des Rheins gehörten, sondern auch die Champagne, die königliche Residenz in Reims – später in Metz – und ein ansehnlic…
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