aller guten Dinge sind drei
The verdict
“aller guten Dinge sind drei” 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Rechtfertigung dafür, dass etwas zum dritten Mal geschieht/versucht wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller guten Dinge sind drei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller guten Dinge sind drei” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aller guten Dinge sind drei is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯]. 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: "Rechtfertigung dafür, dass etwas zum dritten Mal geschieht/versucht wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for aller guten Dinge sind drei 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 guten Dinge sind drei, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -G-U-T-E-N- -D-I-N-G-E- -S-I-N-D- -D-R-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rechtfertigung dafür, dass etwas zum dritten Mal geschieht/versucht wird
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- The one correct German spelling is A-L-L-E-R- -G-U-T-E-N- -D-I-N-G-E- -S-I-N-D- -D-R-E-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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