aus dem Schneider sein
[ˌaʊ̯s dem ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ ˌzaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“aus dem Schneider sein” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine heikle Situation überstanden haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aus dem Schneider sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaʊ̯s dem ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ ˌzaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aus dem Schneider sein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aus dem Schneider sein is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaʊ̯s dem ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ ˌzaɪ̯n]. 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 heikle Situation überstanden haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for aus dem Schneider sein 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 aus dem Schneider sein, spelled A-U-S- -D-E-M- -S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine heikle Situation überstanden haben
Antonyms
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-S- -D-E-M- -S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R- -S-E-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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