das Genick brechen
The verdict
“das Genick brechen” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich ernsthaft verletzen; beim Herabfallen zu Tode kommen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Genick brechen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das ɡəˈnɪk ˌbʁɛçn̩] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das Genick brechen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das Genick brechen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das ɡəˈnɪk ˌbʁɛçn̩]. 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 das Genick brechen 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 das Genick brechen, spelled D-A-S- -G-E-N-I-C-K- -B-R-E-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich ernsthaft verletzen; beim Herabfallen zu Tode kommen
- 2zu Fall bringen; finanziell ruinieren
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Using “das Genick brechen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -G-E-N-I-C-K- -B-R-E-C-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das ɡəˈnɪk ˌbʁɛçn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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