tauchen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,403
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
tauchen is aGermanverb. It means: mit dem Kopf oder dem gesamten Körper unter die Oberfläche des Wassers gehen Pronounced [ˈtaʊ̯xn̩]. It ranks #7,403 in German word frequency. Often confused with taucht and taugen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tauchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtaʊ̯xn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tauchen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaʊ̯xn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,403 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tauchen, with forms such as "atuchen", "tacuhen", and "taucchen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "taucht", "taugen", "taufen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tauchen, spelled T-A-U-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit dem Kopf oder dem gesamten Körper unter die Oberfläche des Wassers gehen
- 2sich unter Wasser begeben und dort bleiben
- 3sich unter die Wasseroberfläche begeben und etwas suchen
- 4sich unter Wasser begeben und nicht mehr sichtbar sein
- 5sich, auch nur scheinbar, in etwas begeben und nicht mehr sichtbar sein
- 6sich aus dem Wasser begeben
- 7in eine Flüssigkeit stecken
- 8mit etwas umgeben, mit etwas erfüllen
- 9jemanden oder jemandes Kopf gewaltsam unter Wasser drücken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuchen,tacuhen,taucchen,taucehn,tauchenn,tauchhen,tauchne,tauhcen,ttauchen,tuachen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tauchen
Misspelling Variants of "tauchen"
Frequency rank: #7,403 in German
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Nearby German words
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