das Zünglein an der Waage sein
The verdict
“das Zünglein an der Waage 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: unbedeutende Sache, die jedoch den Ausschlag gibt oder ein entscheidender Faktor ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Zünglein an der Waage sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das ˈt͡sʏŋlaɪ̯n an deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɡə zaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das Zünglein an der Waage sein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das Zünglein an der Waage sein is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das ˈt͡sʏŋlaɪ̯n an deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɡə 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: "unbedeutende Sache, die jedoch den Ausschlag gibt oder ein entscheidender Faktor ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for das Zünglein an der Waage 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 Zünglein an der Waage sein, spelled D-A-S- -Z-Ü-N-G-L-E-I-N- -A-N- -D-E-R- -W-A-A-G-E- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unbedeutende Sache, die jedoch den Ausschlag gibt oder ein entscheidender Faktor ist
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Using “das Zünglein an der Waage sein”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -Z-Ü-N-G-L-E-I-N- -A-N- -D-E-R- -W-A-A-G-E- -S-E-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das ˈt͡sʏŋlaɪ̯n an deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɡə zaɪ̯n] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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