den Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for den Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen is 68 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːn ˈʃplɪtɐ ɪm ˈfʁɛmdn̩ ˈaʊ̯ɡə aːbɐ nɪçt deːn ˈbalkn̩ ɪm ˈaɪ̯ɡənən ˈzeːən]. 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: "anderen kleinlich jeden Fehler ankreiden, aber die eigenen, schwerwiegenderen Fehler nicht sehen oder nicht sehen wollen".

No misspelling variants are generated for den Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen 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 Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen, spelled D-E-N- -S-P-L-I-T-T-E-R- -I-M- -F-R-E-M-D-E-N- -A-U-G-E-,- -A-B-E-R- -N-I-C-H-T- -D-E-N- -B-A-L-K-E-N- -I-M- -E-I-G-E-N-E-N- -S-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.