The word "hausen" is spelled with the consonant sounds /h/ and /z/, followed by the vowel sounds /au/ and /ən/. The IPA phonetic transcription for "hausen" is /ˈhaʊzən/. The /h/ sound represents the voiceless glottal fricative, and the /z/ sound represents the voiced alveolar fricative. The /au/ sound represents the diphthong sound made up of the vowels /a/ and /u/ and the /ən/ sound represents the schwa sound followed by the consonant /n/.