auswählen
[ˈaʊ̯sˌvɛːlən]
The verdict
“auswählen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,615
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich für eine von mehreren Möglichkeiten entscheiden
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 | auswählen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɛːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auswählen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around auswählen (IPA [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɛːlən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,615 among 113,935 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sich für eine von mehreren Möglichkeiten entscheiden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for auswählen, with forms such as "asuwählen", "ausswählen", and "auswhälen". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "auswählt", "auszuwählen", "Auswahl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 auswählen, spelled A-U-S-W-Ä-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich für eine von mehreren Möglichkeiten entscheiden
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuwählen
- ausswählen
- auswhälen
- auswwählen
- auswäheln
- auswähhlen
- auswählenn
- auswähllen
- auswählne
- auswälhen
- ausäwhlen
- auwsählen
- uaswählen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auswählen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “auswählen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S-W-Ä-H-L-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɛːlən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “auswählt” - see the side-by-side comparison. auswählen vs auswählt
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.