Kauz
[kaʊ̯t͡s]
The verdict
“Kauz” is uncommon German (frequency #66,381 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,381
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter einiger Eulengattungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kauz · Kauz · German
Kauz · rank #66,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,381
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kausale
Nearest frequency peer: kausale (-1 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 „Kauz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kalenderjah…
Kalenderjahres
33,625 corpus weight
- Kapuzen
Kapuzen
33,624 corpus weight
- kategorisie…
kategorisieren
33,623 corpus weight
- kausale
kausale
33,621 corpus weight
- Kauz
Kauz
33,620 corpus weight
- Kinderärztin
Kinderärztin
33,616 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kauz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kauz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaʊ̯t͡s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kauz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kauz is uncommon German at frequency #66,381 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaʊ̯t͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Kauz in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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. The correct German form is Kauz, spelled K-A-U-Z.
Definition
- 1Vertreter einiger Eulengattungen
- 2eigenartiger (aber nicht unsympathischer) Mensch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kauz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Wald hört man nachts die Käuze rufen.
„Hainstock hatte ihr die Lebensgewohnheiten der Käuze geschildert.“
Antonyms
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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