außer Betrieb
\ˌaʊ̯sɐ bəˈtʁiːp\
The verdict
“außer Betrieb” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Hors service, dans le sens de : non opérationnel, pas en exploitation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | außer Betrieb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˌaʊ̯sɐ bəˈtʁiːp\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “außer Betrieb” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for außer Betrieb is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌaʊ̯sɐ bəˈtʁiːp\. 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: "(Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Hors service, dans le sens de : non opérationnel, pas en exploitation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for außer Betrieb in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is außer Betrieb, spelled A-U-S-S-E-R- -B-E-T-R-I-E-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Utilisé uniquement comme attribut) Hors service, dans le sens de : non opérationnel, pas en exploitation.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-U-S-S-E-R- -B-E-T-R-I-E-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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