alles Gute zum Geburtstag
[ˌaləs ˈɡuːtə t͡sʊm ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌtaːk]
The verdict
“alles Gute zum Geburtstag” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Glückwunsch-Formel, mit welcher jemandem zum Geburtstag gratuliert wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alles Gute zum Geburtstag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaləs ˈɡuːtə t͡sʊm ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌtaːk] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alles Gute zum Geburtstag” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for alles Gute zum Geburtstag is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaləs ˈɡuːtə t͡sʊm ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌtaːk]. 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: "Glückwunsch-Formel, mit welcher jemandem zum Geburtstag gratuliert wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for alles Gute zum Geburtstag 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 alles Gute zum Geburtstag, spelled A-L-L-E-S- -G-U-T-E- -Z-U-M- -G-E-B-U-R-T-S-T-A-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glückwunsch-Formel, mit welcher jemandem zum Geburtstag gratuliert wird
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- The one correct German spelling is A-L-L-E-S- -G-U-T-E- -Z-U-M- -G-E-B-U-R-T-S-T-A-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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