aufräumen
\ˈaʊ̯fˌʁɔɪ̯mən\
The verdict
“aufräumen” 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) - Ranger, avec le sens de faire du rangement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aufraumen · aufräumen · French
aufräumen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | aufräumen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈaʊ̯fˌʁɔɪ̯mən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aufräumen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aufräumen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈaʊ̯fˌʁɔɪ̯mən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aufräumen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aufräumen, spelled A-U-F-R-Ä-U-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Ranger, avec le sens de faire du rangement.
- 2Nettoyer, faire disparaître des indésirables ou des défaillances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufräumen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Nina einzog, änderte sich das. Plötzlich war es viel chaotischer. Ihre Umzugskisten lagen wochenlang bei uns in der Wohnung rum. Wenn ich sie fragte, wann sie sie aufräumen will, erwiderte sie immer: Morgen.
Als Bürgermeister stand (Rudy Giuliani) zwischen 1994 und 2001 im Ruf, die Stadt aufgeräumt und in ihrem schlimmsten Moment beherzt angeführt zu haben.
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.