im Voraus
[ɪm ˈfoːʁaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“im Voraus” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu einem Zeitpunkt, der vor einem anderen, bestimmten Zeitpunkt liegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-im-voraus · im Voraus · German
im Voraus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | im Voraus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ɪm ˈfoːʁaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „im Voraus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
im Voraus is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ɪm ˈfoːʁaʊ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu einem Zeitpunkt, der vor einem anderen, bestimmten Zeitpunkt liegt".
No misspelling variants are generated for im Voraus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 im Voraus, spelled I-M- -V-O-R-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1zu einem Zeitpunkt, der vor einem anderen, bestimmten Zeitpunkt liegt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how im Voraus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Ware muss im Voraus bezahlt werden.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.