abgehen wie Schmidts Katze
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abgehen wie Schmidts Katze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈapˌɡeːən viː ˌʃmɪt͡s ˈkat͡sə] |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abgehen wie Schmidts Katze” sits in German frequency
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
- 1rasch, reibungs- und mühelos vonstattengehen, vor sich gehen, vorankommen oder dergleichen
- 2besonders 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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- 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.
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