auf Wiedersehen

/\aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\/ intj

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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auf Wiedersehen is anFrenchintj. It means: Au revoir (principalement employé dans le nord et le centre de l'Allemagne). Pronounced \aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\.

Key facts for auf Wiedersehen
PropertyValue
Headwordauf Wiedersehen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for auf Wiedersehen is 15 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\. 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: "Au revoir (principalement employé dans le nord et le centre de l'Allemagne).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auf Wiedersehen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is auf Wiedersehen, spelled A-U-F- -W-I-E-D-E-R-S-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Au revoir (principalement employé dans le nord et le centre de l'Allemagne).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auf Wiedersehen"?
"auf Wiedersehen" is spelled A-U-F- -W-I-E-D-E-R-S-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\.
What does "auf Wiedersehen" mean?
As an intj, "auf Wiedersehen" means: Au revoir (principalement employé dans le nord et le centre de l'Allemagne).
How do you pronounce "auf Wiedersehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auf Wiedersehen" is \aʊ̯f ˈviː.dɐ.ˌzeː.ən\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auf Wiedersehen" come from?
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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.