dem Tod von der Schippe springen
[deːm ˈtoːt fɔn dɛɐ ˈʃɪpə ˌʃpʁɪŋən]
The verdict
“dem Tod von der Schippe springen” 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
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — einer gefährlichen Situation nur knapp entgehen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dem Tod von der Schippe springen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːm ˈtoːt fɔn dɛɐ ˈʃɪpə ˌʃpʁɪŋən] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dem Tod von der Schippe springen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dem Tod von der Schippe springen is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːm ˈtoːt fɔn dɛɐ ˈʃɪpə ˌʃpʁɪŋən]. 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: "einer gefährlichen Situation nur knapp entgehen".
No misspelling variants are generated for dem Tod von der Schippe springen 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 dem Tod von der Schippe springen, spelled D-E-M- -T-O-D- -V-O-N- -D-E-R- -S-C-H-I-P-P-E- -S-P-R-I-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer gefährlichen Situation nur knapp entgehen
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-M- -T-O-D- -V-O-N- -D-E-R- -S-C-H-I-P-P-E- -S-P-R-I-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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