cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan
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The verdict
“cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan” 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
- 42
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan is 42 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. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zus...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan 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 cuando el gato no está, los ratones bailan, spelled C-U-A-N-D-O- -E-L- -G-A-T-O- -N-O- -E-S-T-Á-,- -L-O-S- -R-A-T-O-N-E-S- -B-A-I-L-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei fehlender Aufsicht nutzen manche die Situation aus, indem sie sich unbekümmert Dinge erlauben, die sonst nicht geduldet würden, indem sie sich Freiheiten herausnehmen, die ihnen sonst nicht zustehen (wortwörtlich: „wenn der Kater/die Katze nicht [da] ist, tanzen die Mäuse“)
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 C-U-A-N-D-O- -E-L- -G-A-T-O- -N-O- -E-S-T-Á-,- -L-O-S- -R-A-T-O-N-E-S- -B-A-I-L-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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