aller Anfang ist schwer
[ˈalɐ ˈanfaŋ ɪst ʃveːɐ̯]
The verdict
“aller Anfang ist schwer” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — der Beginn einer neuen Tätigkeit, Arbeit oder Ähnliches ist immer schwierig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller Anfang ist schwer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈalɐ ˈanfaŋ ɪst ʃveːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller Anfang ist schwer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aller Anfang ist schwer is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalɐ ˈanfaŋ ɪst ʃveːɐ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "der Beginn einer neuen Tätigkeit, Arbeit oder Ähnliches ist immer schwierig".
No misspelling variants are generated for aller Anfang ist schwer 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 aller Anfang ist schwer, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -A-N-F-A-N-G- -I-S-T- -S-C-H-W-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Beginn einer neuen Tätigkeit, Arbeit oder Ähnliches ist immer schwierig
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-L-L-E-R- -A-N-F-A-N-G- -I-S-T- -S-C-H-W-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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