abgehen wie Schmidts Katze

/[ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə]/ phrase

The verdict

“abgehen wie Schmidts Katze” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
26
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: rasch, reibungs- und mühelos vonstattengehen, vor sich gehen, vorankommen oder dergleichen

Key facts for abgehen wie Schmidts Katze
PropertyValue
Headwordabgehen wie Schmidts Katze
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə]
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “abgehen wie Schmidts Katze” sits in German frequency

abgehen wie Schmidts Katze falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for abgehen wie Schmidts Katze is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for abgehen wie Schmidts Katze in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German 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 German form is abgehen wie Schmidts Katze, spelled A-B-G-E-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -S-C-H-M-I-D-T-S- -K-A-T-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    rasch, reibungs- und mühelos vonstattengehen, vor sich gehen, vorankommen oder dergleichen
  2. 2
    besonders dazu geneigt beziehungsweise fähig, Menschen mitzureißen

Synonyms

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze"?
"abgehen wie Schmidts Katze" is spelled A-B-G-E-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -S-C-H-M-I-D-T-S- -K-A-T-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə].
What does "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze" mean?
As a phrase, "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze" means: rasch, reibungs- und mühelos vonstattengehen, vor sich gehen, vorankommen oder dergleichen
How do you pronounce "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze" is [ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abgehen wie Schmidts Katze" come from?
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Using “abgehen wie Schmidts Katze”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is A-B-G-E-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -S-C-H-M-I-D-T-S- -K-A-T-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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