das macht den Kohl nicht fett
The verdict
“das macht den Kohl nicht fett” 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
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: solche Kleinigkeiten helfen auch nicht viel weiter, auf solche Kleinigkeiten kommt es nun auch nicht mehr an
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das macht den Kohl nicht fett |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das maxt deːn ˈkoːl nɪçt ˈfɛt] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das macht den Kohl nicht fett” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das macht den Kohl nicht fett is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das maxt deːn ˈkoːl nɪçt ˈfɛt]. 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: "solche Kleinigkeiten helfen auch nicht viel weiter, auf solche Kleinigkeiten kommt es nun auch nicht mehr an".
No misspelling variants are generated for das macht den Kohl nicht fett 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 macht den Kohl nicht fett, spelled D-A-S- -M-A-C-H-T- -D-E-N- -K-O-H-L- -N-I-C-H-T- -F-E-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1solche Kleinigkeiten helfen auch nicht viel weiter, auf solche Kleinigkeiten kommt es nun auch nicht mehr an
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Using “das macht den Kohl nicht fett”
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- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -M-A-C-H-T- -D-E-N- -K-O-H-L- -N-I-C-H-T- -F-E-T-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das maxt deːn ˈkoːl nɪçt ˈfɛt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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