zeig auf
The verdict
“zeig auf” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs aufzeigen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zeig auf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌt͡saɪ̯k ˈaʊ̯f] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zeig auf” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zeig auf is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌt͡saɪ̯k 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 Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs aufzeigen".
No misspelling variants are generated for zeig auf in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 zeig auf, spelled Z-E-I-G- -A-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs aufzeigen
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Using “zeig auf”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-E-I-G- -A-U-F — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌt͡saɪ̯k ˈaʊ̯f] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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