das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten

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The verdict

“das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten” 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
43
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vorteile nicht nutzen; die wirtschaftliche Grundlage entziehen; Schaden verursachen; Einnahmen/ eine Quelle zum Versiegen bringen; jemand entzieht sich selbst die Grundlage seines (wirtschaftlichen...

Key facts for das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten
PropertyValue
Headworddas Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters43
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten” sits in German frequency

das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten 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 das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten is 43 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: "Vorteile nicht nutzen; die wirtschaftliche Grundlage entziehen; Schaden verursachen; Einnahmen/ eine Quelle zum Versiegen bringen; jemand entzieht sich selbst die Grundlage seines (wirtschaftlichen...".

No misspelling variants are generated for das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten 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 Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten, spelled D-A-S- -H-U-H-N-,- -D-A-S- -G-O-L-D-E-N-E- -E-I-E-R- -L-E-G-T-,- -S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vorteile nicht nutzen; die wirtschaftliche Grundlage entziehen; Schaden verursachen; Einnahmen/ eine Quelle zum Versiegen bringen; jemand entzieht sich selbst die Grundlage seines (wirtschaftlichen) Auskommens/Wohlstands

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten"?
"das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten" is spelled D-A-S- -H-U-H-N-,- -D-A-S- -G-O-L-D-E-N-E- -E-I-E-R- -L-E-G-T-,- -S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten" mean?
As a phrase, "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten" means: Vorteile nicht nutzen; die wirtschaftliche Grundlage entziehen; Schaden verursachen; Einnahmen/ eine Quelle zum Versiegen bringen; jemand entzieht sich selbst die Grundlage seines (wirtschaftlichen...
How do you pronounce "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten" come from?
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Using “das Huhn, das goldene Eier legt, schlachten”

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

  • The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -H-U-H-N-,- -D-A-S- -G-O-L-D-E-N-E- -E-I-E-R- -L-E-G-T-,- -S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.