den breda vägen
[ˈdɛnː `breːda ˈvɛːɡən]
The verdict
“den breda vägen” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — der Weg der Sünde; Wandel, der ins Verderben führt; der Weg der Sünden und der Laster; den breiten Weg ( der Sünde ) wandeln; einen Lebensweg gehen, der in das Verderben führt, den sittlichen Verfall
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | den breda vägen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈdɛnː `breːda ˈvɛːɡən] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “den breda vägen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for den breda vägen is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛnː `breːda ˈvɛːɡən]. 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 den breda vägen 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 breda vägen, spelled D-E-N- -B-R-E-D-A- -V-Ä-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Weg der Sünde; Wandel, der ins Verderben führt; der Weg der Sünden und der Laster; den breiten Weg ( der Sünde ) wandeln; einen Lebensweg gehen, der in das Verderben führt, den sittlichen Verfall
- 2der normale, gerade, einfache, gewöhnliche Weg; ein Weg, der eine breite Unterstützung findet; ein Lebensweg, wie ihn die meisten gehen; breitgetretene Pfade; eine 08/15 Lösung
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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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E-N- -B-R-E-D-A- -V-Ä-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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