Tauen
[ˈtaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“Tauen” is uncommon German (frequency #94,954 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,954
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Tau
Corpus desk
Index DE-tauen · Tauen · German
Tauen · rank #94,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,954
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tatmotiv
Nearest frequency peer: Tatmotiv (-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 „Tauen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tarantel
Tarantel
5,049 corpus weight
- Tatmotiv
Tatmotiv
5,048 corpus weight
- Tauen
Tauen
5,047 corpus weight
- Taufbecken
Taufbecken
5,046 corpus weight
- tausendjähr…
tausendjährigen
5,045 corpus weight
- Technologie…
Technologiekonzern
5,044 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tauen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tauen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tauen is uncommon German at frequency #94,954 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtaʊ̯ən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Tau".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tauen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Tauen, spelled T-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Tau
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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