be in the pink
The verdict
“be in the pink” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: vor Gesundheit strotzen, gesund und munter sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | be in the pink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “be in the pink” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for be in the pink is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "vor Gesundheit strotzen, gesund und munter sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for be in the pink 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 be in the pink, spelled B-E- -I-N- -T-H-E- -P-I-N-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vor Gesundheit strotzen, gesund und munter sein
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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Using “be in the pink”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-E- -I-N- -T-H-E- -P-I-N-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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