Ausweis
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,576
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Ausweis is aGermannoun. It means: Dokument, das als Bestätigung oder Legitimation ausgestellt worden ist und Angaben zur betreffenden Person enthält Pronounced [ˈaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s]. It ranks #7,576 in German word frequency. Often confused with Auszeit and Ausweise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ausweis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ausweis is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,576 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ausweis, with forms such as "asuweis", "ausewis", and "aussweis". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Auszeit", "Ausweise", "ausweist", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Ausweis, spelled A-U-S-W-E-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dokument, das als Bestätigung oder Legitimation ausgestellt worden ist und Angaben zur betreffenden Person enthält
- 2Kenntlichmachung eines Sachverhaltes, insbesondere von Teilbeträgen einer Summe
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asuweis,ausewis,aussweis,ausweiss,auswesi,auswies,auswweis,auwseis,uasweis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ausweis
Misspelling Variants of "Ausweis"
Frequency rank: #7,576 in German
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