Ausschweifung
\ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fʊŋ\
The verdict
“Ausschweifung” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excès, débordement, débauche, dévergondage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ausschweifung · Ausschweifung · French
Ausschweifung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | Ausschweifung |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fʊŋ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ausschweifung » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ausschweifung is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaʊ̯sˌʃvaɪ̯fʊŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excès, débordement, débauche, dévergondage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ausschweifung, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Ausschweifung, spelled A-U-S-S-C-H-W-E-I-F-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Excès, débordement, débauche, dévergondage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ausschweifung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ausschweifungen wie übermäßiges Trinken und Rauchen sind ausgeschlossen - Les excès tels que boire et fumer exagérément sont exclus.
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.