chien qui aboie ne mord pas
The verdict
“chien qui aboie ne mord pas” 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personen, die drohen und ihre Wut äußern, muss man nicht am meisten fürchten; Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chien qui aboie ne mord pas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chien qui aboie ne mord pas” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chien qui aboie ne mord pas is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa]. 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: "Personen, die drohen und ihre Wut äußern, muss man nicht am meisten fürchten; Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht".
No misspelling variants are generated for chien qui aboie ne mord pas 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 chien qui aboie ne mord pas, spelled C-H-I-E-N- -Q-U-I- -A-B-O-I-E- -N-E- -M-O-R-D- -P-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personen, die drohen und ihre Wut äußern, muss man nicht am meisten fürchten; Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht
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- The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-E-N- -Q-U-I- -A-B-O-I-E- -N-E- -M-O-R-D- -P-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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