de tal palo, tal astilla
The verdict
“de tal palo, tal astilla” 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: so wie der (Holz)Stamm ist, so ist auch der Splitter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de tal palo, tal astilla |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [de tal ˈpalo tal asˈtiʎa] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de tal palo, tal astilla” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for de tal palo, tal astilla is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [de tal ˈpalo tal asˈtiʎa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for de tal palo, tal astilla 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 tal palo, tal astilla, spelled D-E- -T-A-L- -P-A-L-O-,- -T-A-L- -A-S-T-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1so wie der (Holz)Stamm ist, so ist auch der Splitter.
- 2wie der Herr, so’s Gescherr! oder: der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
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Using “de tal palo, tal astilla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E- -T-A-L- -P-A-L-O-,- -T-A-L- -A-S-T-I-L-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [de tal ˈpalo tal asˈtiʎa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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