Sauferei
[zaʊ̯fəˈʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Sauferei” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - übermäßiger Genuss von alkoholischen Getränken
Corpus desk
Index DE-sauferei · Sauferei · German
Sauferei · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | Sauferei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zaʊ̯fəˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sauferei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sauferei is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [zaʊ̯fəˈʁaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "übermäßiger Genuss von alkoholischen Getränken".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sauferei in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Sauferei, spelled S-A-U-F-E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1übermäßiger Genuss von alkoholischen Getränken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sauferei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er ist eben aus dem Bett gekrochen, hat eine Kanne schwarzen Kaffee getrunken und versucht jetzt, mit viel Priem den Geschmack von der gestrigen Sauferei aus dem Mund zu kriegen.“
„Die Nachbarn wechselten sich mit dem Kochen und der Versorgung der Kinder ab, sie halfen bei der Wäsche und beim Einkaufen, bis der Vater durch seine Sauferei immer unangenehmer und schwieriger wurde.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.