wachet auf

/[ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wachet auf is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufwachen Pronounced [ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f].

Key facts for wachet auf
PropertyValue
Headwordwachet auf
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

wachet auf is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wachet auf is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufwachen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wachet auf in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 wachet auf, spelled W-A-C-H-E-T- -A-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufwachen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wachet auf"?
"wachet auf" is spelled W-A-C-H-E-T- -A-U-F. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f].
What does "wachet auf" mean?
As a verb, "wachet auf" means: 2. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufwachen
How do you pronounce "wachet auf"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wachet auf" is [ˌvaxət ˈaʊ̯f]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wachet auf" come from?
"wachet auf" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.