bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund
[bəˈkannt zaɪ̯n viː aɪ̯n ˈbʊntɐ hʊnt]
The verdict
“bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund” 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
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sehr bekannt sein, auffallen, was sich aber ursprünglich meist auf ein kleineres Gebiet bezog (Dorf, Kleinstadt)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [bəˈkannt zaɪ̯n viː aɪ̯n ˈbʊntɐ hʊnt] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈkannt zaɪ̯n viː aɪ̯n ˈbʊntɐ hʊnt]. 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: "sehr bekannt sein, auffallen, was sich aber ursprünglich meist auf ein kleineres Gebiet bezog (Dorf, Kleinstadt)".
No misspelling variants are generated for bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund 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 bekannt sein wie ein bunter Hund, spelled B-E-K-A-N-N-T- -S-E-I-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -B-U-N-T-E-R- -H-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sehr bekannt sein, auffallen, was sich aber ursprünglich meist auf ein kleineres Gebiet bezog (Dorf, Kleinstadt)
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 B-E-K-A-N-N-T- -S-E-I-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -B-U-N-T-E-R- -H-U-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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