auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
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The verdict
“auf die schiefe Bahn geraten” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine unerwünschte, eine Fehlentwicklung nehmen; moralisch, wirtschaftlich absinken, meist auch kriminell werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf die schiefe Bahn geraten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf die schiefe Bahn geraten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf die schiefe Bahn geraten is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "eine unerwünschte, eine Fehlentwicklung nehmen; moralisch, wirtschaftlich absinken, meist auch kriminell werden".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for auf die schiefe Bahn geraten, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is auf die schiefe Bahn geraten, spelled A-U-F- -D-I-E- -S-C-H-I-E-F-E- -B-A-H-N- -G-E-R-A-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine unerwünschte, eine Fehlentwicklung nehmen; moralisch, wirtschaftlich absinken, meist auch kriminell werden
This word in other languages
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-U-F- -D-I-E- -S-C-H-I-E-F-E- -B-A-H-N- -G-E-R-A-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.