auf jeden Fall
Letters
14 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
auf jeden Fall is aGermanphrase. It means: unbedingt; mit Sicherheit Pronounced [aʊ̯f ˈjeːdn̩ ˈfal].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf jeden Fall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f ˈjeːdn̩ ˈfal] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf jeden Fall is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯f ˈjeːdn̩ ˈfal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auf jeden Fall 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 jeden Fall, spelled A-U-F- -J-E-D-E-N- -F-A-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unbedingt; mit Sicherheit
- 2bestätigend: Ja!; Richtig!; So ist es.
- 3resümierend: was auch immer sei, …
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