das A und O
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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das A und O is aGermanphrase. It means: Anfang und Ende, das Ein und Alles, die Hauptsache, die Grundlage, die Grundvoraussetzung, der Kern, der Kernpunkt, die elementare, essentielle Wichtigkeit Pronounced [ˌdas ˈaː ʊnt ˈoː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das A und O |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌdas ˈaː ʊnt ˈoː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for das A und O is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌdas ˈaː ʊnt ˈoː]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for das A und O in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 das A und O, spelled D-A-S- -A- -U-N-D- -O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anfang und Ende, das Ein und Alles, die Hauptsache, die Grundlage, die Grundvoraussetzung, der Kern, der Kernpunkt, die elementare, essentielle Wichtigkeit
- 2aus der christlichen Lehre Selbstbeschreibung Gottes: ich bin der Anfang und das Ende (von Allem)
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