auf Gedeih und Verderb
[aʊ̯f ɡəˈdaɪ̯ ʊnt fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁp]
The verdict
“auf Gedeih und Verderb” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bedingungslos, völlig, ohne Ausstiegs- / Abbruchsmöglichkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-auf-gedeih-und-verderb · auf Gedeih und Verderb · German
auf Gedeih und Verderb · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf Gedeih und Verderb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f ɡəˈdaɪ̯ ʊnt fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁp] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „auf Gedeih und Verderb“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
auf Gedeih und Verderb is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [aʊ̯f ɡəˈdaɪ̯ ʊnt fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bedingungslos, völlig, ohne Ausstiegs- / Abbruchsmöglichkeit".
auf Gedeih und Verderb has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is auf Gedeih und Verderb, spelled A-U-F- -G-E-D-E-I-H- -U-N-D- -V-E-R-D-E-R-B.
Definition
- 1bedingungslos, völlig, ohne Ausstiegs- / Abbruchsmöglichkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auf Gedeih und Verderb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er war ihrer Willkür auf Gedeih und Verderb ausgeliefert.
Das Team hielt auf Gedeih und Verderb zusammen.
Synonyms
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.