das Übel an der Wurzel packen
The verdict
“das Übel an der Wurzel packen” 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: die Ursachen (eines Problems, Übels, Missstandes) bekämpfen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Übel an der Wurzel packen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [daːs ˈyːbl̩ an deːɐ̯ ˈvʊʁt͡sl̩ ˈpakn̩] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das Übel an der Wurzel packen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das Übel an der Wurzel packen is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [daːs ˈyːbl̩ an deːɐ̯ ˈvʊʁt͡sl̩ ˈpakn̩]. 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: "die Ursachen (eines Problems, Übels, Missstandes) bekämpfen".
No misspelling variants are generated for das Übel an der Wurzel packen 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 Übel an der Wurzel packen, spelled D-A-S- -Ü-B-E-L- -A-N- -D-E-R- -W-U-R-Z-E-L- -P-A-C-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Ursachen (eines Problems, Übels, Missstandes) bekämpfen
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- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -Ü-B-E-L- -A-N- -D-E-R- -W-U-R-Z-E-L- -P-A-C-K-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [daːs ˈyːbl̩ an deːɐ̯ ˈvʊʁt͡sl̩ ˈpakn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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