wäh
German, interjection/væː/
wäh is spelled W-Ä-H (3 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wäh is a German interjection meaning “an exclamation of disgust: yuck!, ew!, gross!, ugh! (often preceded by the interjection na)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does wäh mean in English?
interjection
- 1
Austriaan exclamation of disgust: yuck!, ew!, gross!, ugh! (often preceded by the interjection na)
Wäh, ist das grauslich!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce wäh?
- /væː/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is wäh in German?
wäh appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).