zaubern
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,841
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
zaubern is aGermanverb. It means: etwas durch übernatürliche (magische) Kräfte geschehen lassen; Magie anwenden Pronounced [ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐn]. Often confused with zaubert and Zauber.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zaubern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zaubern is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,841 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 zaubern, with forms such as "azubern", "zabuern", and "zaubbern". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "zaubert", "Zauber", "Zählern", 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 zaubern, spelled Z-A-U-B-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas durch übernatürliche (magische) Kräfte geschehen lassen; Magie anwenden
- 2durch geschickte Bewegungen, Ablenkung und Täuschung einem Publikum Tricks vorführen, die wie Zauberei oder Magie aussehen; einen Zaubertrick vorführen
- 3etwas unter nicht optimalen Voraussetzungen oder mit bescheidenen Mitteln sehr gut oder sehr schnell bewerkstelligen oder gutes Ergebnis erzielen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: azubern,zabuern,zaubbern,zaubenr,zaubernn,zauberrn,zaubren,zauebrn,zuabern,zzaubern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zaubern
Misspelling Variants of "zaubern"
Frequency rank: #12,841 in German
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