der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ɪst aɪ̯n ˈaɪ̯çˌhœʁnçən]. 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: "man darf sich nie zu sicher sein, auch aus vermeintlich Harmlosem kann unerwartet Böses erwachsen".

No misspelling variants are generated for der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen 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 Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen, spelled D-E-R- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -I-S-T- -E-I-N- -E-I-C-H-H-Ö-R-N-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.