das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern
The verdict
“das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern” 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
- 39
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: das ist allgemein bekannt, das weiß jeder, auch wenn es noch nicht offiziell ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das ˈp͡faɪ̯fn̩ diː ˈʃpat͡sn̩ fɔn deːn ˈdɛçɐn] |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern is 39 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das ˈp͡faɪ̯fn̩ diː ˈʃpat͡sn̩ fɔn deːn ˈdɛçɐn]. 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: "das ist allgemein bekannt, das weiß jeder, auch wenn es noch nicht offiziell ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern 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 pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern, spelled D-A-S- -P-F-E-I-F-E-N- -D-I-E- -S-P-A-T-Z-E-N- -V-O-N- -D-E-N- -D-Ä-C-H-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das ist allgemein bekannt, das weiß jeder, auch wenn es noch nicht offiziell ist
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Using “das pfeifen die Spatzen von den Dächern”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -P-F-E-I-F-E-N- -D-I-E- -S-P-A-T-Z-E-N- -V-O-N- -D-E-N- -D-Ä-C-H-E-R-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das ˈp͡faɪ̯fn̩ diː ˈʃpat͡sn̩ fɔn deːn ˈdɛçɐn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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