den Zahn der Zeit treffen
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The verdict
“den Zahn der Zeit treffen” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — unter Rücksichtnahme auf den aktuellen Geschmack mit einer Sache Erfolg haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | den Zahn der Zeit treffen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “den Zahn der Zeit treffen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for den Zahn der Zeit treffen is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "unter Rücksichtnahme auf den aktuellen Geschmack mit einer Sache Erfolg haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for den Zahn der Zeit treffen 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 Zahn der Zeit treffen, spelled D-E-N- -Z-A-H-N- -D-E-R- -Z-E-I-T- -T-R-E-F-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unter Rücksichtnahme auf den aktuellen Geschmack mit einer Sache Erfolg haben
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- -Z-A-H-N- -D-E-R- -Z-E-I-T- -T-R-E-F-F-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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