der Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for der Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach is 50 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ɡaɪ̯st ɪst ˈvɪlɪç ˈaːbɐ das flaɪ̯ʃ ɪst ʃvax]. 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: "gute Vorsätze werden aus Bequemlichkeit oder menschlicher Schwäche nicht befolgt".

No misspelling variants are generated for der Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach 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 Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach, spelled D-E-R- -G-E-I-S-T- -I-S-T- -W-I-L-L-I-G-,- -A-B-E-R- -D-A-S- -F-L-E-I-S-C-H- -I-S-T- -S-C-H-W-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.