den Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for den Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːn ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ dʊʁç ˈbeːlt͡səbuːp ˈaʊ̯sˌtʁaɪ̯bn̩]. 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: "ein Übel durch ein anderes, zumeist noch schlimmeres, bekämpfen/ersetzen".

No misspelling variants are generated for den Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben 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 Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben, spelled D-E-N- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -D-U-R-C-H- -B-E-E-L-Z-E-B-U-B- -A-U-S-T-R-E-I-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.