den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen
[deːn ˈboːdn̩ ʊntɐ deːn ˈfyːsn̩ ˈvɛkˌt͡siːən]
The verdict
“den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen” 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
- 35
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — jemandem die Existenzgrundlage/Sicherheit, das Selbstverständnis nehmen; jemanden zu Fall bringen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːn ˈboːdn̩ ʊntɐ deːn ˈfyːsn̩ ˈvɛkˌt͡siːən] |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen is 35 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːn ˈboːdn̩ ʊntɐ deːn ˈfyːsn̩ ˈvɛkˌt͡siːən]. 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: "jemandem die Existenzgrundlage/Sicherheit, das Selbstverständnis nehmen; jemanden zu Fall bringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen 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 den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen, spelled D-E-N- -B-O-D-E-N- -U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -F-Ü-S-S-E-N- -W-E-G-Z-I-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem die Existenzgrundlage/Sicherheit, das Selbstverständnis nehmen; jemanden zu Fall bringen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-N- -B-O-D-E-N- -U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -F-Ü-S-S-E-N- -W-E-G-Z-I-E-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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