saus
[zaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“saus” is uncommon German (frequency #85,793 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,793
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sausen
Corpus desk
Index DE-saus · saus · German
saus · rank #85,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,793
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH satisfaction
Nearest frequency peer: satisfaction (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “saus”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sanddünen
Sanddünen
14,212 corpus weight
- satisfaction
satisfaction
14,209 corpus weight
- saus
saus
14,208 corpus weight
- schadete
schadete
14,207 corpus weight
- Schadstoff
Schadstoff
14,205 corpus weight
- schan
schan
14,204 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “saus” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “saus” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
saus is uncommon German at frequency #85,793 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [zaʊ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sausen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for saus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is saus, spelled S-A-U-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sausen
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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