chien qui aboie ne mord pas

/[ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa]/ phrase

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

Key facts for chien qui aboie ne mord pas
PropertyValue
Headwordchien qui aboie ne mord pas
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa]
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chien qui aboie ne mord pas” sits in German frequency

chien qui aboie ne mord pas falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Personen, die drohen und ihre Wut äußern, muss man nicht am meisten fürchten; Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chien qui aboie ne mord pas"?
"chien qui aboie ne mord pas" is spelled C-H-I-E-N- -Q-U-I- -A-B-O-I-E- -N-E- -M-O-R-D- -P-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa].
What does "chien qui aboie ne mord pas" mean?
As a phrase, "chien qui aboie ne mord pas" means: Personen, die drohen und ihre Wut äußern, muss man nicht am meisten fürchten; Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht
How do you pronounce "chien qui aboie ne mord pas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chien qui aboie ne mord pas" is [ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chien qui aboie ne mord pas" come from?
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Using “chien qui aboie ne mord pas”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as [ʃjɛ̃kiabwanəmɔʁpa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.