der Krug geht so lange zum Brunnen, bis er bricht

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for der Krug geht so lange zum Brunnen, bis er bricht is 49 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ kʁuːk ɡeːt zoː ˈlaŋə t͡sʊm ˈbʁʊnən bɪs eːɐ̯ bʁɪçt]. 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: "jemand treibt etwas so lange, bis er Schaden nimmt".

No misspelling variants are generated for der Krug geht so lange zum Brunnen, bis er bricht 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 Krug geht so lange zum Brunnen, bis er bricht, spelled D-E-R- -K-R-U-G- -G-E-H-T- -S-O- -L-A-N-G-E- -Z-U-M- -B-R-U-N-N-E-N-,- -B-I-S- -E-R- -B-R-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.