Garaus
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,868
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Garaus is aGermannoun. It means: jemandem den Garaus machen – ermorden, töten, umbringen Pronounced [ˈɡaːɐ̯ʔaʊ̯s].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Garaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaːɐ̯ʔaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Garaus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡaːɐ̯ʔaʊ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,868 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Garaus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Garaus, spelled G-A-R-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem den Garaus machen – ermorden, töten, umbringen
- 2krautartige Pflanze mit Rand, gezähnten Blättern und weißen Blüten
Frequency rank: #52,868 in German
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