kauest ab
[ˌkaʊ̯əst ˈap]
The verdict
“kauest ab” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs abkauen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kauest ab |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌkaʊ̯əst ˈap] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kauest ab” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kauest ab is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌkaʊ̯əst ˈap]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs abkauen".
No misspelling variants are generated for kauest ab 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 kauest ab, spelled K-A-U-E-S-T- -A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs abkauen
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is K-A-U-E-S-T- -A-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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