auf eigene Faust
Letters
16 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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auf eigene Faust is aGermanphrase. It means: aus eigenem Antrieb, durch eigene Tatkraft, ohne fremde Hilfe; auf eigene Verantwortung Pronounced [aʊ̯f ˌʔaɪ̯ɡənə ˈfaʊ̯st].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf eigene Faust |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f ˌʔaɪ̯ɡənə ˈfaʊ̯st] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf eigene Faust is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯f ˌʔaɪ̯ɡənə ˈfaʊ̯st]. 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: "aus eigenem Antrieb, durch eigene Tatkraft, ohne fremde Hilfe; auf eigene Verantwortung".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auf eigene Faust in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 auf eigene Faust, spelled A-U-F- -E-I-G-E-N-E- -F-A-U-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aus eigenem Antrieb, durch eigene Tatkraft, ohne fremde Hilfe; auf eigene Verantwortung
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