der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm is 36 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ˈʔap͡fl̩ fɛlt nɪçt vaɪ̯t fɔm ʃtam]. 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: "deutet an, dass ein Kind Eigenschaften und Verhaltensweisen von den Eltern übernimmt; abstammende Dinge, Erscheinungen weisen gemeinsame Merkmale mit den Dingen und Erscheinungen auf, von denen sie...".

No misspelling variants are generated for der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm 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 der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm, spelled D-E-R- -A-P-F-E-L- -F-Ä-L-L-T- -N-I-C-H-T- -W-E-I-T- -V-O-M- -S-T-A-M-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.