der Schein trügt
[deːɐ̯ ʃaɪ̯n tʁyːkt]
The verdict
“der Schein trügt” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — etwas ist nicht, wie es den Anschein hat; etwas macht einen falschen Eindruck
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | der Schein trügt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːɐ̯ ʃaɪ̯n tʁyːkt] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “der Schein trügt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for der Schein trügt is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ʃaɪ̯n tʁyːkt]. 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: "etwas ist nicht, wie es den Anschein hat; etwas macht einen falschen Eindruck".
No misspelling variants are generated for der Schein trügt 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 Schein trügt, spelled D-E-R- -S-C-H-E-I-N- -T-R-Ü-G-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas ist nicht, wie es den Anschein hat; etwas macht einen falschen Eindruck
This word in other languages
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-R- -S-C-H-E-I-N- -T-R-Ü-G-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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