Räuchern
[ˈʁɔɪ̯çɐn]
The verdict
“Räuchern” is uncommon German (frequency #63,715 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,715
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verfahren zur Konservierung von Lebensmitteln, vorwiegend von Fisch und Fleisch. Die Lebensmittel über einen längeren Zeitraum dem Rauch von Holzfeuern ausgesetzt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Räuchern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɔɪ̯çɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Räuchern” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Räuchern is uncommon German at frequency #63,715 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁɔɪ̯çɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Räuchern, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Räuchern, spelled R-Ä-U-C-H-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Verfahren zur Konservierung von Lebensmitteln, vorwiegend von Fisch und Fleisch. Die Lebensmittel über einen längeren Zeitraum dem Rauch von Holzfeuern ausgesetzt
- 2Ritual oder Brauch zum Freisetzen von Duft- und Wirkstoffen
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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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Using “Räuchern”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-Ä-U-C-H-E-R-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.