de proche en proche
The verdict
“de proche en proche” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: allmählich, nach und nach, sukzessive
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de proche en proche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [də.pʁɔ.ʃ‿ɑ̃.pʁɔʃ] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de proche en proche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for de proche en proche is 19 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [də.pʁɔ.ʃ‿ɑ̃.pʁɔʃ]. 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: "allmählich, nach und nach, sukzessive".
No misspelling variants are generated for de proche en proche 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 de proche en proche, spelled D-E- -P-R-O-C-H-E- -E-N- -P-R-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1allmählich, nach und nach, sukzessive
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E- -P-R-O-C-H-E- -E-N- -P-R-O-C-H-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [də.pʁɔ.ʃ‿ɑ̃.pʁɔʃ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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