chilled to the bone
The verdict
“chilled to the bone” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: bis auf die Knochen erschüttert sein, sehr großer Schreck
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chilled to the bone |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chilled to the bone” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chilled to the bone is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, 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. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chilled to the bone 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 chilled to the bone, spelled C-H-I-L-L-E-D- -T-O- -T-H-E- -B-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bis auf die Knochen erschüttert sein, sehr großer Schreck
- 2völlig durchgefroren sein, unterkühlt sein, sehr stark frieren
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Using “chilled to the bone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-L-L-E-D- -T-O- -T-H-E- -B-O-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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