aufhängen
\ˈaʊ̯fˌhɛŋən\
The verdict
“aufhängen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pendre une chose (tableau), une personne ou un animal en haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aufhangen · aufhängen · French
aufhängen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufhängen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈaʊ̯fˌhɛŋən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aufhängen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈaʊ̯fˌhɛŋən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aufhängen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aufhängen, spelled A-U-F-H-Ä-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pendre une chose (tableau), une personne ou un animal en haut.
- 2Accrocher le combiné téléphonique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufhängen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An den Wänden wurden Bilder aufgehängt, Zeichnungen angeheftet, zuweilen aus Zeitschriften ausgeschnittene Bilder, die häufig wechselten.
Ich muss unbedingt aufhängen: Die Batterie meines Telefons ist nahezu leer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.