chat échaudé craint l’eau froide

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for chat échaudé craint l’eau froide is 32 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer (l'enfant brûlé craint le feu) (Eine gebrühte Katze fürchtet das kalte Wasser.Im französischen Sprichwort genügt also äußerliche Ähnlichkeit mit einer schädigenden ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for chat échaudé craint l’eau froide 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 chat échaudé craint l’eau froide, spelled C-H-A-T- -É-C-H-A-U-D-É- -C-R-A-I-N-T- -L-’-E-A-U- -F-R-O-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.