wendet auf
\ˌvɛndət ˈaʊ̯f\
The verdict
“wendet auf” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de aufwenden.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wendet auf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˌvɛndət ˈaʊ̯f\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wendet auf” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for wendet auf is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌvɛndət ˈaʊ̯f\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for wendet auf 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 wendet auf, spelled W-E-N-D-E-T- -A-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de aufwenden.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de aufwenden.
- 3Deuxième personne du pluriel subjonctif présent I dans une proposition principale de aufwenden.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de aufwenden.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is W-E-N-D-E-T- -A-U-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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