fauchen
German, verb/ˈfaʊ̯xən/
fauchen is spelled F-A-U-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 88,766th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fauchen is a German verb meaning “to hiss, to spit, to growl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen scharfen, zischenden Ton von sich geben”.
What does fauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hiss, to spit, to growl
- 2
to hiss (e.g., escaping steam)
- 3
to snap (to speak in an irritable way)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen scharfen, zischenden Ton von sich geben 2. etwas gereizt, erregt, scharf sagen
noun: 1. fauchendes Geräusch
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fauchen
- faucht present singular third-person
- fauchte past
- gefaucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- fauchend participle present
- fauche first-person indicative present
- fauchst indicative present second-person
- fauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- fauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- fauchten first-person indicative plural
- fauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- fauchtet indicative plural preterite
- fauch imperative second-person singular
- habe gefaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fauch! imperative singular
- faucht! imperative plural
- gefaucht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fauchen?
- /ˈfaʊ̯xən/
- [ˈfaʊ̯xən]
- [ˈfaʊ̯xn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fauchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fauchen in German?
fauchen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).