aus der Reihe tanzen
The verdict
“aus der Reihe tanzen” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (absichtlich) anders als die Mehrheit, der Großteil sein, nicht dem Mainstream folgen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aus der Reihe tanzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯s deːɐ̯ ˈʁaɪ̯ə ˌtant͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aus der Reihe tanzen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aus der Reihe tanzen is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯s deːɐ̯ ˈʁaɪ̯ə ˌtant͡sn̩]. 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: "(absichtlich) anders als die Mehrheit, der Großteil sein, nicht dem Mainstream folgen".
No misspelling variants are generated for aus der Reihe tanzen 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 der Reihe tanzen, spelled A-U-S- -D-E-R- -R-E-I-H-E- -T-A-N-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(absichtlich) anders als die Mehrheit, der Großteil sein, nicht dem Mainstream folgen
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- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S- -D-E-R- -R-E-I-H-E- -T-A-N-Z-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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