auswischen
[ˈaʊ̯sˌvɪʃn̩]
The verdict
“auswischen” is uncommon German (frequency #74,335 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,335
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hilfsverb haben:
Corpus desk
Index DE-auswischen · auswischen · German
auswischen · rank #74,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,335
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Autoscooter
Nearest frequency peer: Autoscooter (+3 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „auswischen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ausgehandel…
ausgehandelten
25,672 corpus weight
- ausgeprägtem
ausgeprägtem
25,671 corpus weight
- auswischen
auswischen
25,666 corpus weight
- Autoscooter
Autoscooter
25,663 corpus weight
- auweia
auweia
25,662 corpus weight
- Balanceakt
Balanceakt
25,660 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „auswischen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auswischen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɪʃn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „auswischen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
auswischen is uncommon German at frequency #74,335 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɪʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for auswischen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is auswischen, spelled A-U-S-W-I-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Hilfsverb haben:
- 2etwas durch Wischen beseitigen
- 3etwas meist an den inneren Seiten durch Wischen reinigen
- 4etwas durch Wischen auslöschen
- 5Hilfsverb sein:
- 6jemandem unbemerkt und/oder durch eine List entkommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auswischen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er wischte den Staub aus der Truhe aus.
Ich wische den Dreck aus den Ecken aus.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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