das schwarze Schaf sein
The verdict
“das schwarze Schaf sein” 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
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: jemand, der sich von den anderen Mitgliedern einer Gemeinschaft (besonders einer Familie) negativ unterscheidet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das schwarze Schaf sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das ˈʃvaʁt͡sə ʃaːf zaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das schwarze Schaf sein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das schwarze Schaf sein is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das ˈʃvaʁt͡sə ʃaːf zaɪ̯n]. 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: "jemand, der sich von den anderen Mitgliedern einer Gemeinschaft (besonders einer Familie) negativ unterscheidet".
No misspelling variants are generated for das schwarze Schaf sein 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 schwarze Schaf sein, spelled D-A-S- -S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E- -S-C-H-A-F- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der sich von den anderen Mitgliedern einer Gemeinschaft (besonders einer Familie) negativ unterscheidet
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Using “das schwarze Schaf sein”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E- -S-C-H-A-F- -S-E-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das ˈʃvaʁt͡sə ʃaːf zaɪ̯n] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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