das Maß aller Dinge
The verdict
“das Maß aller Dinge” 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: der Maßstab, an dem sich alle messen; das Beste
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Maß aller Dinge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das ˈmaːs ˌalɐ ˈdɪŋə] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das Maß aller Dinge” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das Maß aller Dinge is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das ˈmaːs ˌalɐ ˈdɪŋə]. 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: "der Maßstab, an dem sich alle messen; das Beste".
No misspelling variants are generated for das Maß aller Dinge 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 Maß aller Dinge, spelled D-A-S- -M-A-S-S- -A-L-L-E-R- -D-I-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Maßstab, an dem sich alle messen; das Beste
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Using “das Maß aller Dinge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -M-A-S-S- -A-L-L-E-R- -D-I-N-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das ˈmaːs ˌalɐ ˈdɪŋə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
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