aller guten Dinge sind drei

/[ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯]/ phrase

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

Key facts for aller guten Dinge sind drei
PropertyValue
Headwordaller guten Dinge sind drei
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯]
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “aller guten Dinge sind drei” sits in German frequency

aller guten Dinge sind drei 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 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

  1. 1
    Rechtfertigung dafür, dass etwas zum dritten Mal geschieht/versucht wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aller guten Dinge sind drei"?
"aller guten Dinge sind drei" is spelled A-L-L-E-R- -G-U-T-E-N- -D-I-N-G-E- -S-I-N-D- -D-R-E-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯].
What does "aller guten Dinge sind drei" mean?
As a phrase, "aller guten Dinge sind drei" means: Rechtfertigung dafür, dass etwas zum dritten Mal geschieht/versucht wird
How do you pronounce "aller guten Dinge sind drei"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aller guten Dinge sind drei" is [ˈalɐ ˈɡuːtn̩ ˈdɪŋə zɪnt dʁaɪ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “aller guten Dinge sind drei”

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

  • 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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.