den Schein wahren
The verdict
“den Schein wahren” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: den äußeren Anschein aufrechterhalten, auch wenn dieser nicht mehr der Wahrheit entspricht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | den Schein wahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːn ʃaɪ̯n ˈvaːʁən] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “den Schein wahren” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for den Schein wahren is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːn ʃaɪ̯n ˈvaːʁən]. 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: "den äußeren Anschein aufrechterhalten, auch wenn dieser nicht mehr der Wahrheit entspricht".
No misspelling variants are generated for den Schein wahren 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 Schein wahren, spelled D-E-N- -S-C-H-E-I-N- -W-A-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1den äußeren Anschein aufrechterhalten, auch wenn dieser nicht mehr der Wahrheit entspricht
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Using “den Schein wahren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E-N- -S-C-H-E-I-N- -W-A-H-R-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Nearby German words
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